Quotes About Transition

But I won't be doing it next year; physically I can't. This was my year, my last hurrah, my chance to complete the circle and put a few old ghosts to rest. I had something to prove. I wanted it to be the perfect finale- ten years of something I had been a part of starting.

I need to start over. I can't just stay stuck in this place." This is a wonderful skill to bring to your life.

That's life: starting over, one breath at a time.

And yes, water freezes. But it also melts.

As cultural politics change, museums change with them.

To overcome your fear of death, you have to move from 'the world ends with me' to 'the world goes on without me'. It is a great leap, the biggest step a human can take.

By the early 1800s, India had been reduced from a land of artisans, traders, warriors and merchants, functioning in thriving and complex commercial networks, into an agrarian society of peasants and moneylenders.

Ugliness is halfway to beauty.

Tori hurried after him, knowing nothing would be the same again.

career-interruption event

At the halfway point of any drunken night, there is a moment when an Indian realizes he cannot turn back toward tradition and that he has no map to guide him toward the future.

We all have to find our own ways to say goodbye. (161)

Seems like the cold would never go away and winter would be like the bottom of my feet but then it is gone in one night and in its place comes the sun so large and laughable.

but I know somebody must be thinking about us because if they weren't we'd just disappear just like those Indians who used to climb the pueblos. Those Indians disappeared with food still cooking in the pot and air waiting to be breathed and they turned into birds or dust or the blue of the sky or the yellow of the sun. There they were and suddenly they were forgotten for just a second and for just a second nobody thought about them and then they were gone.

Mary was a bright and shining star," Mr. P said. "And then she faded year by year until you could barely see her anymore.

There's always time to change your life.

Because someone needs to help you die the right way," she said. "And we both know that dying ain't something you ever done before.

I thought that once I figured out thirteen, then it was history

That's what happens when people die. Time freezes around them. If you stand too close, you get caught, like a fly trapped in amber. It takes a certain amount of strength to pull away and leave it behind.

Adoptive parents often say about adoption day: It was the happiest day of our lives! While most of us are happy to be adopted, our own hearts tell us that adoption day was the most painful day of our lives, for the person with whom we shared deep intimacy suddenly disappeared from our world.

Can you believe our Ash is getting laid? Our baby is growing up. I'm so proud!

She went from angry to calm so fast that he wondered if she wasn't the Ferrari of moms. Her top speed had to be .65 nanoseconds.' (Nick)

Death is just a new beginning…at least in my religion. And extreme inebriation seriously helps. (Syn)

And she was just leaving. (Xedrix) Not yet, I'm not. (Aimee) Yes, you are. Adios. There's the door. Doorknob twists to the left. The hinges open in. You should use them. Keep them working. Keep you breathing. (Xedrix)