Quotes About Transition

Closing the door to change would mean shutting out life itself.

Just as you cannot wave your hands and reappear in your simple life before coming here, so you cannot merely clap them to wake up the dead from their troubles.

Each of them had been looking for a way out of their own black midnights, and each of them still had a long way to go until they found some kind of dawn.

Stories wander around, go from one land to another, sometimes parts change.

You can never go back, really, there is only forward.

She looked to be maybe fifteen, give or take a year or two; still somewhere in that nether realm between childhood and womanhood. Her hair, to judge by the few unsoiled strands he could see, was an earthy brown, and her eyes shone with a blue-green hue so liquid that he almost expected to see waves. A small, ever-so-slightly upturned nose sat in the center of a slender face.

And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story.

the purpose of death is the release of love.

Valha-me Nossa Senhora, Mãe de Deus de Nazaré! A vaca mansa dá leite, a braba dá quando quer. A mansa dá sossegada, a braba levanta o pé. Já fui barco, fui navio, mas hoje sou escaler. Já fui menino, fui homem, só me falta ser mulher.

Porque tudo que é vivo morre.

Graduation is only a concept. In real life every day you graduate. Graduation is a process that goes on until the last day of your life. If you can grasp that, you'll make a difference.

History is subject to geology.

1. Spring equinox to summer solstice: the growing tide 2. Summer solstice to autumn equinox: the reaping tide 2. Autumn equinox to winter solstice: the resting tide 3. Winter solstice to spring equinox: the cleansing tide

The rising sun holds promise and is nothing more than a new opportunity for growth and discovery. It's a new start and anything can happen during those hours." "And the setting sun?" "The setting sun allows us to take a deep breath and bask in all the growth we've done throughout the day.

Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.

Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may...meet with great misfortunes.

The light of the day is followed by night, as a shadow follows a body.

Change in all things is sweet.

I remember my mom saying that after you have a baby you get really thin. So you gain all that weight and then you just lose it and keep losing it.

Psychotherapy is about an internal process of transformation. Gender therapy is not simply about surgery or hormones or even transition. It is not really about 'becoming' something as much as it is about allowing the false parts of the self to recede so that an authentic self can emerge.

I wonder how long it will take to dry.

Conservatives of yesterday seem moderate or liberal to us today.

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

You may really be looking forward to spending some time with your baby while your partner is recuperating. But you may be worried that you won't know how to do all the things that she usually does for the family. (If this last part is true, you'd better learn how to do the laundry and run the dishwasher in a hurry.)