Quotes About Transition

Someday, of course, she would light out on her own, following her own riverbed, and though we'd follow as long as she allowed, and though we trusted she'd come and go from our lives with regularity, she would also be a half memory [...]

That's the thing about needs. Sometimes when you get them met, you don't need them anymore.

he seemed as right as rain when I saw him yesterday!" And that's what Pete and Joe said, too. Right as rain! And then I got to thinking. "That's how he was then," I said. "What's in your mind, Terry?" said Pete. "If he was fit as a fiddle one day, how come he was dead as a doornail the next?

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

This is my 20th year in the sport. I've known swimming and that's it. I don't want to swim past age 30 if I continue after this Olympics, and come back in 2016, I'll be 31. I'm looking forward to being able to see the other side of the fence.

Change brings opportunities. On the other hand, change can be confusing.

Aubrey Fitzwilliam hated being dead. It made things much harder than they needed to be.

They stood there for a while, with no sound but the flapping of the flag. "It's not that simple, Kiowa." "Of course it's not simple. Who said it was simple? But you know what? Lots of loose ends don't ever get tied up. Play the hand you're dealt. Move on." Kiowa

Reaching Fort Brazeau seemed markedly anticlimactic. True, it was a milestone. Yet for Glass the fort did not mark a finish line to cross with elation, but rather a starting line to cross with resolve.

this one beach holds the story of a world always changing, always on the move.

In England it took two hundred years after the Romans left before coins were used as money again. There were no mints at all east of the Rhine until Regensburg, and that mint produced very little.37

Your life can end at any time, and it can end more than once. But it can also begin more than once.

Winter here arrives, stays, persists, goes away a little, then comes back and people start leaping off the bridges. That's approximately March, when jumping is at its apogee, but even then, winter isn't over. What it likes to do is go away for a week in April and then return for three days and finish grandpa off.

At first I was surprised by how hard it was for our church to navigate all this.

She says I should reach out and build bridges, but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

Sometimes people don't come back,' said Rachel. 'That's why you should always make your goodbyes count.

The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we're standing still.

there are so many ways to move forward and only one way to stand still.

People talk about there being sliding doors or forks in the road when lives take a different course. Sometimes it's only later, in retrospect, that we recognize we even had a choice.

I realized that life is a series of good-byes and I had to make sure that I didn't waste my days or use them up too soon.

I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

but I think certain bridges are meant to burn and it's a shame some people can't be on them when it happens.

He told me we had to "move forward," which is a term that I've never understood. The planet turns. Time passes. We move forward even when we're standing still.

The world is getting faster just as I'm getting slower. I can't keep up so I've stopped trying.