Quotes About Transition

You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay… That's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.

The secret of long life is double careers. One to about age sixty, then another for the next thirty years.

She, like so many other patients, was looking backward to her childhood, instead of forward. Not surprisingly, her neglected marriage dissolved.

The pattern is clear: dissent, lose, and leave (or be forced out).

Times change, faces change but the doubt remains, the fear remains-

No more dead dogs and slashed swans for us," whispered Dick Alderman, like this was good news- It wasn't.

The scenery changes but the pain remains.

And here's the thing about outbreaks: They end. In some cases they end after many years, in other cases they end rather soon.

At dawn the boy bathes, then stays awake until late afternoon, pacing and expectant, at which point the circumciser comes at him with a homemade knife. "I nursed my wound for 45 days after," one initiate said.

Perhaps one day Russia might even become somehow ordinary, a country of problems rather than catastrophes, a place that develops rather than explodes. That would be something to see.

For a teenage girl, finding the balance between childhood fearlessness and adult vulnerability can be tougher than landing a triple axel.

Without recognizing it, we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change. I believe that we are at the end of nature.

In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.

THE FIRST GIVEN of life is that changes and endings are inevitable for any person, relationship, enthusiasm, or thing. Nothing is perfect, permanently satisfying, or permanently anything. Everything falls apart in time. Every beginning leads to a finale. Built into all experiences, persons, places, and things is a life span. Our relationships pass through phases, from romance through struggle to commitment. Then they end with death or separation.

For all that has been: Thanks! For all that shall be: Yes! —DAG HAMMARSKJÖLD, Markings

In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, a depression, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition.

For all that has been: Thanks. For all that shall be: Yes.

Then we become more adult, because we are fulfilling the inner urge that all humans were born with: to go on a heroic journey, to move on rather than stay stuck. Where we are is not our fate. It is where we can best begin the journey.

out here in "the real world," every day was sort of like the one before. I guess that's why people freaked out about birthdays: Those at least put a stake in the ground, somehow ended one chapter and opened a next.

I believe we have two lives. The life we learn with, and the life we live with after that.

The present is a point just passed.

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn...?

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which bridge to burn

After the devastation wrought by the Yeltsin era, almost any new leader was likely to be perceived as a potential savior. Russians saw in Putin what they wanted him to be, rather than what he was. He also took power at a moment when the Russian economy started to expand.