Quotes About Transition

It wasn't satisfying to be the one to leave. But it was a lot better than being the one who was left.

Giving birth is little more than a set of muscular contractions granting passage of a child. Then the mother is born.

When you look like your passport photo, it's time to go home.

For from this day forward his world can only widen. An existence that began in a crib, grew to a house, and extends over a two-block bicycle ride will now go even beyond that. I will share him with another woman, other adults, other children, other opinions, other points of view. I am no longer leading. I am standing behind him ready to guide from a new position.

If the frustrations are not surrounded by anxiety, fear of life, insecure love and support, then the child progresses easily and naturally to the new challenges of a symbolic, social way of life. The child that we call, typically, autistic or schizophrenic, is the one who has not been able to feel this secure sense of support to his body; and so he does not make a confident transition from the biological to the social world. The "lever" of

From the child of five to myself is but a step. But from the new-born baby to the child of five is an appalling distance. —LEO TOLSTOI

How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.

If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything? ...

Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light.

And that was the end of the beginning of that

That was the end of the first part of Paris. Paris was never to be the same again although it was always Paris and you changed as it changed. We never went back to the Vorarlberg and neither did the rich.

You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.

The setting of the sun is a difficult time for all fish.

In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.

How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked. "Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly.

We have to get used to the idea that at the most important crossroads in our life there are no signs.

I had already seen the end of fall come through boyhood, youth and young manhood, and in one place you could write about it better than in another. That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.

He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.

You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened?

Is dying hard, Daddy? No, I think it's pretty easy, Nick. It all depends.

For a man to take it at thirty-four as a guide-book to what life holds is about as safe as it would be for a man of the same age to enter Wall Street direct from a French convent, equipped with a complete set of the more practical Alger books.

Gradually, then suddenly.

You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.

That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.