Quotes About Transition

When do you realize the selves you left behind have gone on without you, living the many lives you now begin to resemble?

Death, like birth, is a secret of nature." Only with birth you get a blanket and a bottle. You get a blanket with death too, but they call it a shroud and everyone else gets the bottle.

I've been me for so long, what am I going to be if that's gone?

Hi, Keitu. Look how you've grown," I say, which is stupid because it's the last thing kids want to hear.

I suppose I'll get over Janet, but it's going to be a long, sad process finding a new donut place.

Young vampires are all assholes. It's part of their job description.

did you lose your mind all of the sudden or was it a slow, gradual process?

Politics, like theater, is one of those things where you've got to be wise enough to know when to leave.

I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.

The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.

At some point, you're no longer growing up, you're aging. But no one can pinpoint that moment exactly.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

How long did it take for a past to die?

My telephone calls and meetings and decisions were now parts of a prescribed ritual aimed at making peace with the past his calls, his meetings and his decisions were already the ones that would shape America's future. (On transfer of power to Gerald R Ford)

Like Janus, a software architect needs to be a keeper of doors and passageways, spanning the old and the new, incorporating creativity with sound engineering to fulfill todays requirements while planning to meet tomorrow's expectations.

I have always argued that change becomes stressful and overwhelming only when you've lost any sense of the constancy of your life. You need firm ground to stand on. From there, you can deal with that change.

The rulings of the past do not always apply in the present.

The thing about being dead, Mr. Lehman, is that there's no future in it.

It's easier to act your way into a new way of thinking, than to think your way into a new way of acting.

The only promise of childhood is that it will end.

The changing seasons of circumstance can melt away stretches of our lives like frost in the warmth of spring.

Maybe things always look different when we leave them, like a lover. Or a battleground. (Sometimes those are one and the same.)

Sometimes the evolving terrain of life requires us to evolve with it. When those times come, we usually find ourselves quivering on the precipice of change as long as we can, because no one wants to dive headlong into the ravine of uncertainty. No one. Only when the pain of being becomes too much do we close our eyes and leap.

It's amazing to me to see how so unexpectedly life can switch tracks to a new destination.