Quotes About Transition

This is how it is now. This is my life.

You'll be a good parent when you're ready to no longer be selfish. Until I was about 35, it was all about me. I look back and I'm astonished at how I lived my life - it was totally self-involved.

You don't reach points in life at which everything is sorted out for us. I believe in endings that should suggest our stories always continue.

Let me tell you something about dying: it's not as bad as they says. it's the coming-back-to-life part that hurts.

Inertia, when first encountered, appears to be an immovable force. We are creatures who like comfort, patterns, and repetition... Yet change is life's only constant.

Hopefully people will grow with me, because I'm definitely not going to be stuck in one place all my life.

I just felt from personal observation that there is nothing more dislocated or alienated than a lifelong military person trying to cope in civilian life. It's like two completely separate planets.

I'm excited to start a new chapter in my life.

Whenever my life came to a halt, the questions would arise: Why? And what next?

After I finished 'E.R.', I wanted to concentrate on re-examining what kind of actress I am and taking time for real-life things.

I always tell people that my life is in pencil; I have to keep an eraser in my hand because I could always get a call that could change everything.

I began writing The Cold Song in the months following my fathers death, when I felt this sense of loss, disappearance, of being right in the middle of life and wondering: What now? How to proceed?

The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

I suppose now I'm obliged to wish you happiness in your new life. Although happiness in the absence of indoor plumbing is a debatable concept.

As it turned out, Welcome was where I lost everything, and gained everything. Welcome was the place where my life was guided from one track to another, ending me to places I'd never thought of going.

I went through a huge transition in my life where everything and everyone I knew and trusted didn't turn out to be that way.

I think it's hard for everyone to find their way as an adult and to match up their expectations from their youth to what their adult life looks like.

Then I went home to continue my life, which had changed a little, as lives do every day, inching by microspecks forward toward whatever surprises are coming next.

You can divide my life into two.

Life will force you to make changes you never wanted to make

I comfortably and easily release the old and and welcome the new in my life. I am safe.

I release the past with ease and trust in the process of life.

This is the first day of the rest of my life. So why is my hair sticking up like a cockerel?

Of course, Im older now. Im in a different place in my life than when I wrote the songs for Car Wheels or Essence or whatever. Different things were going on.