Quotes About Transition

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.

Death is a gift, so long as it is nature's hand.

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

I don't think anyone ever gets over anything in life; they merely get used to it.

When you're young, you always feel that life hasn't yet begun—that "life" is always scheduled to begin next week, next month, next year, after the holidays—whenever. But then suddenly you're old and the scheduled life didn't arrive. You find yourself asking, 'Well then, exactly what was it I was having—that interlude—the scrambly madness—all that time I had before?

In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in sentences that end before finishing. We sleep heavily because we need to ask so many questions as we dream alone. We bump into others and feel bashful at recognizing souls so similar to ourselves.

the new incoming phone has to be

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality and then there are those who turn one into the other.

Death is the final wake-up call.

Death is feared as birth is forgotten.

It's realizing that you've lived your life not thinking about this moment. Pretending that, somehow, you'll never have to face up to the biggest moment of them all – when you finally know that there is no future possibility for change, for exploring other options, for even dreaming about another life. When you can't even retreat into your fantasy about doing it all differently … because you've run out of road.

mon tour viendra de quitter la scène.

But the strangest of all sensations is the moment after you have been freed of the baby--and the baby of you--and you are handed this tiny shriveled creature to hold for the first time... and you feel a mixture of unbelievable instant love and desperate fear.

We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

After all, in the sporting world, being discovered to have taken testosterone is ordinarily grounds to prevent someone from competing – unless, it turns out, the person is taking testosterone to transition to the opposite sex. In which case sensitivity overrides science.

In one way Timothy had gone all the way around the oppression cycle. From woman, to trans, to white man and therefore to the personification of the white patriarchy. From minority to oppressor. Where female to male transitioners can create one pile-up, male to female transitioners produce another of their own – most obviously with people who have been born as women.

What if – Sarah asked her daughter – after choosing to transition she then felt the need to de-transition? What if having made this change she decided she didn't want it? Her daughter's response was, 'So. I'll kill myself.' While no parent should ever take such a threat lightly there does seem to be a pattern to it, as Germaine Greer had claimed much earlier.

Dr Johanna Olson-Kennedy.

that into adulthood, even when Tony drifted into

Paul is arguing that the nature of the tree has not been changed by the transition from the Levitical administration to the New Covenant. The Root is still Christ. The tree is still Israel—not the nation of Israel, but rather the person of Israel, the Lord Jesus. Christ is our Israel, and Christ is our only Israel. If we abide in Him permanently, we will bear fruit that remains. If we do not abide in Him permanently, we will be removed and burned.

Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. -Dr. Seuss

Midlife: when the Universe grabs your shoulders and tells you "I'm not f-ing around, use the gifts you were given.