Quotes About Transition

I cherish a witch hazel kind of day, a scrap of color, a light in the window when winter is closing all around.

All amphibians are tethered to the pond by their evolutionary history, the most primitive vertebrates to make the transition from the aquatic life of their ancestors to life on land.

One day, after I'm a daffodil, I will be able to photosynthesize. It's something to look forward to.

A compass: "To find your new path.

The behavior of these three blurs the distinction at the edge between life and death.

transformation is slow.

The fork in the road stands atop a hill. To the left the path is soft and green and spangled with dew. You want to go barefoot. The path to the right is ordinary pavement, deceptively smooth at first, but then it drops out of sight into the hazy distance. Just over the horizon, it is buckled with heat, broken to jagged shards.

In moving from a childhood in the woods to the university I had unknowingly shifted between worldviews, from a natural history of experience, in which I knew plants as teachers and companions to whom I was linked with mutual responsibility, into the realm of science.

Perhaps the Skywoman story endures because we too are always falling. Our lives, both personal and collective, share her trajectory. Whether we jump or are pushed, or the edge of the known world just crumbles at our feet, we fall, spinning into someplace new and unexpected. Despite our fears of falling, the gifts of the world stand by to catch us.

You don't even realize you're living in a before until you wake up one day and find yourself in an after.

We walk through many doors in our lifetime. It is the accumulation of these seemingly minor passages that shape our lives. Most often, it is years after we pass over a threshold before we realize the significance of the moment. That was not the case with the books I read that summer.

to the sack and began removing cartons, placing them on the table.

A girl becomes a comma like that, with wrong boy after wrong boy; she becomes a pause, something quick before the real thing.

Even our deepest disappointments will ultimately prove to be gatekeepers for future delight.

let's go downstairs.

She wasn't running away from anything, she was running to what promised to be a new life; one that didn't include her husband Tim and the Valley Star.

they'd chosen this rental for its proximity to the hospital and signed a six-month lease, which had turned into month-to-

Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular.

Yes, she's about to embark on a new phase of her life. And yes, my role in her life may change. But as time goes on and our hearts grow more rings, we don't have to leave anyone behind. We can hold on to each other, and collect new hearts to hold, from this day forward, as long as we all shall live.

You think you're in Connecticut, but you're in the jungle.

Eric turned the corner onto his old

I knew my life would forever be divided into Before and After. I didn't

So you're not a Protestant anymore? You're Catholic now?

Judy woke up on her back in the parking lot.