Quotes About Transition

... unless you made your life a turning point, there was no reason for existing.

We are told we must choose - the old or the new. In fact, we must choose both. What is a life if not a series of negotiations between the old and the new?

As one passion begins to fail it is necessary to form another, for the whole art of going through life tolerably is to keep oneself eager about anything.

A garden is where you can find a whole spectrum of life, birth and death

Around mid-life everyone goes maniac a little bit.

I've had such extremes in my life. From being this kind of wild kid, to one year studying to be a Franciscan priest at the seminary....I was very frustrated.

In my new life, no room for a lost boy.

Cherish every season of life; for without coldness, there is no comfort in warmth, and without darker days, there is no joy in light.

Keep making the movements of life.

I was never someone who had a lot of confidence in anything that had to do with using your brain. I really was lost in my life after football.

it was possible to grow up in an instant, that you could look down and see the line in the sand dividing your life now from what it used to be.

Perhaps all of life is no more than a long preparation for the leaving of it.

...the moment of passage from disturbance into harmony is that of intensest life.

It looks like I'm going to be 40 and life begins at 40 -? so they promise. And I believe it, too.

If my life was a play, age 35 was my intermission.

Might be a quarter life crisis, just disturbin' in my soul.

In life, the first act is always exciting but it is the second act - that's where the depth comes in.

Take the adventure, heed the call, now ere the irrevocable moment passes! 'Tis but a banging of the door behind you, a blithesome step forward, and you are out of your old life and into the new!

Life is what we do when we're on the way to live it.

There was no more dangerous a time in a nation's life than the passing of a ruler when the succession was in doubt.

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.

I was into acting as a kid. There was a time when I was 18 that I played the boy in a production of 'Equus' in Oregon, and I thought that was going to be my life.

I'd say that on 'Friends' my character was the guy bouncing around the room. I'm no longer that guy, necessarily, in my life. I used to be. But I'm not now.