Quotes About Transition

Death is just nature's way of telling you to slow down.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

And yet, I suppose you mourn the loss or the death of what you thought your life was, even if you find your life is better after. You mourn the future that you thought you'd planned.

My life comes down to three moments: the death of my father, meeting my husband, and the birth of my daughter. Everything I did previous to that just doesn't seem to add up to very much.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

Home life's great, man. The kids are great, happy and healthy. I've reached this sort of wonderful precipice.

The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.

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

Life is continuous. Life never stops. We come to the really great questions and before we can answer them, life has moved on to something else.

But the rule seems to be that the bigger and more life-changing the decision, the less it will seem like a decision at all.

Life changes a lot. I guarantee you.

Another turn in my life happened when I took on the Canada Council.

Death is another life.

Every moment of life is a step toward the grave. [Fr., Chaque instant de la vie est un pas vers la mort.]

I will find out what the normal life is like. I will be a coach. I have achieved everything I could achieve in gymnastics.

There is no death. The thing that we call death Is but another, sadder name for life.

Having children is life-changing, to state the obvious. It's a gigantic shift in your life and I welcomed it.

I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.

Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go.

The big new development in my life is, when I turned 80, I decided I no longer have to do four pages a day. For me, it's like retiring.

I complain about my life. I used to complain about boys or not being able to drive or failing a test. Now I complain about boys, not being able to drive, and leaving home so much.

The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life

My life hasn't been static - I spent a lot of time in Europe, a lot of time in India. So I traveled around a lot, and I kept moving.