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Quotes About Transition

O lugar onde esbarramos, no É-Já, era logo depois da ponte de pau, que estando esburacada:
~ João Guimarães Rosa
The goal is for your mid-life crisis to turn into a mid-life discovery.
~ Joan Anderson
Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe. I'm hoping hard for that.
~ Joan Bauer
Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite. Not yet. Soon, maybe.
~ Joan Bauer
Divorce casts so many shadows.
~ Joan Bauer
There's a lot of cheese where you're going, Hope. I'm not sure how this affects people long term.
~ Joan Bauer
Almost. It's a big word for me. I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite... Soon, maybe.
~ Joan Bauer
Empty moving boxes piled in a heap—the cardboard symbols of starting over
~ Joan Bauer
You know what it's like to move from being happy to being not? It's like swinging as high as you can and someone stops you as you come back down.
~ Joan Bauer
Today is a cross-quarter day, halfway between the winter solstice and the spring equinox. The sun is becoming an ever greater presence; the days are growing longer.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Today the cosmic wheel turns and opens fully to the West. The hours of light and dark are exactly equal on this first day of fall.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Peace be with you. The darkest day of the year has dawned, and the Great Medicine Wheel has shifted from the West to the North.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
We are entering the season of darkness during which we partake in the most ancient of miracles, giving birth to the Light.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
Lammas, or Teltane, is a cross-quarter day midway between summer solstice and fall equinox.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
March is a month of coming and going, the changing of the guard.
~ JOAN BORYSENKO
for beginners. After that, you can set out for
~ Joan D. Chittister
Statio—stopping to collect our hearts and minds before we begin something new—is the sign that we know we are about to do the will of God for the world. We know that we must not go at it when we are scattered of heart.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Everything new is not the end of the world. Instead, it is the beginning of a new way of being alive that is based on the past but has already grown beyond it.
~ Joan D. Chittister
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.
~ Joan Didion
When assaulted by sexual knowledge for the first time, a girl plunges into a period of blackness, which is required in order to let her emotions catch up with her body. Sleeping Beauty sleeps. Cinderella waits, and while she waits she works her way through the darkness of depression. Snow White both works and sleeps before she is ready to open her eyes and find a Prince leaning over her.
~ Joan Gould
You are the first inhabitant I meet In this new country.
~ Joan London
After a year and a half my therapist retired, so I was bounced to someone else-a woman. Shazam! I suddenly felt I could open up and talk about the real stuff going on in my head. She lasted two session. I guess it was the castration fantasy that pushed over the edge.
~ Joan Nestle
The sense of adventure and curiosity to see what the future holds is the other side of serenity. It, too, is a spiritual state most attractive in people in transition, whether entering adulthood or preparing for death. -Sexuality and Spiritual Growth
~ Joan Timmerman
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
~ Joan Wallach Scott