Quotes About Transition

Death is life's way of telling you you're fired.

It's much easier to turn a friendship into love, than love into friendship.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.

People will frighten you about a graduation....They use words you don't hear often... "And we wish you Godspeed." It is a warning, Godspeed. It means you are no longer welcome here at these prices.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.

There is a good reason they call these ceremonies 'commencement exercises'. Graduation is not the end, it's the beginning.

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Perhaps what I do not manage to operate rapidly enough is the passage between the outside and the inside.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

We know that birth takes a woman from one place in her life to another. The birth of a child certainly does change her viewpoint of herself and I believe her viewpoint of the world.

A woman rarely discards one lover - until she is sure of another.

War begins like a pretty girl with whom every man wants to flirt and ends like an ugly old woman whose visitors suffer and weep.

Time has a way of changing things, and change is gone come whether we like it or not.

Love is like energy. It can never be created nor destroyed...it is just always there. You just have to realize that fact and you have to learn that as soon as you stopped loving him in the way you did that love left to somewhere else. Now all you have to do is find out where that love went. That love went to whoever the next person in your life will be. That next person could be one of your friends or someone you might dislike, you just have to find that out.

Some people come into our lives and quickly go. Others stay awhile, make footprints on our hearts and we are never, ever the same.

I am going to hold on to the times that we had, and find a way to make it without you.

Love may sometimes turn itself into hate. Hate, however, rarely and hardly ever becomes love.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

I told her I'd wait forever for her, but that was before I found somebody else who'd give me a ride home.