Quotes About Transition

Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.

It hadn't been so long ago, yet sometimes she felt that she'd been an altogether different person back then.

Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn't do.

She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

What you're missing is that the path itself changes you.

Life is the offspring of death.

A life that is never willing to change is a great tragedy - a wasted life. Change is a necessary part of a growing life, and we need change in order to remain fresh and to keep progressing.

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

In the Buddhist approach, life and death are seen as one whole, where death is the beginning of another chapter of life. Death is the mirror in which the entire meaning of life is reflected.

I thought I was an old soul, and that I knew life, but then starting the real life, I figured I am completely new.

My life in Montana is so diverse from my Hollywood life that it even feels odd for me to go from one life to the other.

My life changed completely in 1989 with the fall of the wall.

My life changed incredibly when I moved from Holland to England.

The only real change in life comes with the consciousness of old age.

Death is an antidote for this life, and it makes another more stable form of life which is insoluble in everything.

Life's too short to be a Go-Go for twenty years.

The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning.

What is life, but the gentle effacement of a tree shedding its leaves?

This life is just your schooling for what you have to do when you graduate.

Death from this life is just graduation from this grade. It's our release, our graduation, our promotion. School is out! We've finished our schooling in this grade and we pass on to the next grade.

All of the pleasures of this present physical life can be continued into the next life as well!

And sometimes the hardest thing you can do is walk away. But you got to. And, when you do, it changes your life.

What is terrible is that after every one of the phases of my life is finished, I am left with no more than some banal commonplace that everyone knows.