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Quotes About Transition

Life is a lively process of becoming.
~ Douglas MacArthur
I pray to give thanks and to recognize all the good things that are in my life even during times of great change, confusion, or frustration.
~ Alicia Keys
I get it now; I didn't get it then. That life is about losing and about doing it as gracefully as possible... and enjoying everything in between.
~ Mia Farrow
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
~ Anatole France
Life is a movie; death is a photograph.
~ Susan Sontag
The only way you can write is by the light of the bridges burning behind you.
~ Richard Peck
Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.
~ Jean Paul
The mid-life crisis is just those times when you're not so into the things you were when you were younger.
~ Jay Kay
In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.
~ John Ruskin
Don't close the book when bad things happen in your life! Just turn the page and start a new chapter!
~ LaToya Jackson
his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
Life is a continuous process of adjustment.
~ Indira Gandhi
I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.
~ Elvis Costello
Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.
~ Robert Breault
In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.
~ Gene Ween
There is a time in a boy's life when the sweetness is pounded out of him; and tenderness, and the ability to show what he feels, is gone.
~ Norah Vincent
I did not know then that this is what life is - just when you master the geometry of one world, it slips away, and suddenly again, you're swarmed by strange shapes and impossible angles.
~ Ta-Nehisi Coates
I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.
~ Alan Rickman
College inspired me to think differently. It's like no other time in your life.
~ Larisa Oleynik
One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.
~ Jude Morgan, Indiscretion
One day, you're 17 and you're planning for someday. And then quietly, without you ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
~ John Green
Life is a constant series of cleaning up the last mess.
~ Jillian Lauren
Life's like a novel with the end ripped out.
~ Danny Orton