Quotes About Transition

No matter the self-conceited importance of our labors we are all compost for worlds we cannot yet imagine.

One day I will say the gift I once had has been taken, the place I have made for myself belongs to another, and the words I have sung are being sung by the ones I would want. Then I will be ready for that voice and the still silence in which it arrives. And if my faith is good then we'll meet again on the road and we'll be thirsty, and stop and laugh and drink together again from the deep well of things as they are. ...

beginning well means seating ourselves in the body again, catching up with ourselves and the person we have become since we last tried to begin.

It should have been the epiphany of the sixties. Instead it turned out to be its requiem,

Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.

I'm getting closer to the coast and realize how much I hate arriving at a destination. Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.

Political loyalties can die hard, and there were probably those who pined after Absalom and told their children stories of the greatness that briefly existed, in the manner of old communists saddened by the demise of the world in which they were young.

That's what life is. Adjustment.

I reached out and, with a small move of my body, did something that would change my life forever. I gently moved Amy aside and stepped down ahead of her, putting myself between her and the shadows.

Snap. Ka-chunk. That's how I spell the sound of a doorknob turning.

Today's cloud is tomorrow's puddle.

I stared out of the window, at my Bronco rusting in the parking lot, the metal eager to get back to just being dirt. Life was probably easier for it back then.

Molly had moved when the rest of the world was still,

Would it not be the beautiful thing now If you were coming instead of going…

With every new moment, he was no longer the man he'd been the moment before.

Before, you are wise; after, you are wise. In between you are otherwise

In every man and woman there are three phases of life more descriptive of the soul's inner journey than are childhood, maturity and old age: It can't happen to me; I can overcome it; I accept it.

The casket sat in the front of the church, open to all. I didn't look. Whoever was there wan't Jules. Jules was at the ocean now, being a seagull. Dancing. And free.

The troubles of adolescence eventually all go away — it's just like a really long, bad cold.

I've learned that what has a good beginning needs also a good ending. Spoken by the hero, Adam Tremain

Great Britain has lost an empire and has not yet found a role.

You can't live in the digital and die in the analog.

It takes a real man to be a trans woman

Change isn't easy... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.