Quotes About Transition

One mistake can change the course of your life. You can never return to your original path or go back to the person you were.

have forced myself to move forward, but I can never move on.

it was like watching a silk worm's death-tender and subtle.

What's your first impression of a new place? Is it the first meal you eat? Your first ice cream cone? The first person you meet? The first night you spend in your new bed in your new home? The first broken promise?

the four phases of a woman's life are the same

This will come when I can no longer bring children into the world—

nothing in the world is permanent. The only permanent thing is impermanence.

Let me see you going but never coming back.

And sometimes, God asks us to wrestle with the unfamiliar until it becomes our new familiar. Until we can breathe freely in that new place.

Energy cannot be created or destroyed. It can only change form.

When they're small, they're part of you, on you in bed, showering with you, climbing onto your lap, holding on to your leg. Slowly, slowly, they start to move away, and if you love them, if you want them to feel safe and free to explore the world, you have to let them go. Mostly.

Sometimes it seemed like that was all it was, motherhood—grief and guilt and fear. You said good-bye a little every day—from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

But there was something more true, more solid about loving someone through change.

First you were the kid, no one taking you seriously. And then, all of a sudden, people much younger were in positions of authority, and you were supposed to listen to them. It was truly weird.

Wasn't there some belief about how if you drop a frog into boiling water, it will jump right out? But if you put it in cold water and turn up the heat gradually, it will allow itself to slowly cook to death?

Motherhood was a widening circle of good-byes.

Selena loved the liminal spaces. Those precious slivers of time between the roles she played in life.

Are you nervous about no longer being a big fish in a small pond?

The Clique.... the only thing harder than getting in is saying goodbye.

Mrs. Lot was a sandwich-generation woman, not sure what life might hold for her-scared of going forward, frightened of going back.

The 8th is also the gateway into the underworld, the transitional place where we discover that we are not masters of our lives, but must bow to more archaic, primal needs and patterns that are larger and older than any individual. The meaning

All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.

Even in a fantasy realm, growing up is accomplished not without cost.

It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened.