Quotes About Transition

When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.

Out of the unreal shadows of night comes back the real life that we had known. We have to resume it where we had left off... p 207

Leaving things behind and starting again is a way of coping with difficulties. I learnt very early in my life that I was able to leave a place and still remain myself.

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

I was in my mid 20s when email finally took off. Until then, the phone was my primary way of connecting with the people in my life.

You are nearing the land that is life; you will recognize it by its seriousness.

Death is the most misunderstood phenomenon. People have thought of death as the end of life. That is the first, basic misunderstanding.

Life is wasted in the necessary preparation of finding what is the true way, and we die just as we enter it.

somehow, with the passage of time, and the dealines that life imposes, surrending became the right thing to do

I've been the longest-serving police commissioner in the history of the department, but it's time in my life to move on. I'm ready for new adventures, new challenges.

I always think that I'm still this 13-year old boy that doesn't really know how to be an adult, pretending to live my life, taking notes for when I'll really have to do it.

When I retired, I felt that I lived more in that year than I had the previous 27 years of my life.

I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

So, change lanes. Get your stride back. Don't stay on a road that can only lead you to further devastation

There was a period in my life where I went out a lot and I had a really good time. But that period is over.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

Death is just another stage of life, although the one you kind of hope comes last.

As you get older, you sometimes feel that it's harder and harder to get something new and wonderful to come into your life.

Your college education is a key moment in life.

One of the biggest changes that ever occurred in my life was going from the isolation of working part-time as a house painter in Henderson County, to Cornell, where everybody was a literary person.

Grief is a funny thing because you don't have to carry it with you for the rest of your life. After a bit you set it down by the roadside and walk on and leave it.

The first twenty years of my life were wasted. I didn't fit my environment, and I didn't know any other.

Death is the continuing of life ... the next part of our life. It's like walking through a door, you know? Walking through the door marked "Death": It's the beginning of a new part of our journey.

Childhood - that was not my favorite time in my life.