Quotes About Transition

The self you leave behind is only a skin you have outgrown. Don't grieve for it. Look to the wet, raw, unfinished self, the one you are becoming. The world, too, sheds its skin: politicians, cataclysms, ordinary days.

If, however, we take the story as a metaphor for the journey of the writer/artist, perhaps it is telling us that a time comes when we must take what we have learned, but go on without our parents, our teachers, our mentors, those who first showed us the way. We must go beyond at least some of our companions. And that necessary individuation—that breaking free—is sometimes very hard, sometimes even psychologically violent.

Someday, I suppose I'll give up, and sit in the rocking chair. But I'll probably be rocking fast, because I don't know what I'll do without a job.

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

Patricia B. McConnell

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Time was such an odd thing. One moment you could talk to someone, then suddenly, they were gone.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

It comes with being a teenager—you inspire violence in the hearts of those who love you. It mostly goes away when you hit twenty.

Change is neither good nor bad. It's just change. Frightening, but survivable.

Death is part of life," he told her. "Without the one, it is hard to have the other.

Change is hard.And it doesn't matter much whether it is change for good or ill. (Adam)

The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you're in charge. Especially if you think you're in charge. (Adam)

All things die, Mercy. Some just takes longer than others. (Charles)

There is no life without death.

Coyote had told me once that changes were neither good nor bad—but brought with them some of both.

Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you are in charge. Especially if you think you are in charge.

All change brings bad things and good things to replace the bad and good things that were before. It is natural to look back and say it was better before - but that does not make it true. Different is not worse. It is just different.

There is magic in places that are between: crossroads, thresholds, bridges.

Not all relationships that end are failures.

Healthy pain invites healing. Gabriel is a good boy; he'll be a good man. Not all relationships that end

Some people are boys longer than others.

I think some people are lucky to be so fond of a place they are going back to. But it's not lucky if they let that blind them to the place they find themselves