Quotes About Transition

Being able to play basketball at a high level, adjusting to the ball in the air, quick feet, quick hands and all that stuff definitely translates to playing tight end in the National Football League.

I had this scholarship, two pairs of tight jeans, and a couple of hundred extra dollars, and I showed up in Oregon and went to school there.

I didn't run the ball very much in college. I sat out most of the time and played a little slot receiver, a little tight end, a little fullback but that's pretty much about it.

If you resist change, you resist life.

Myth is the threshold of history.

Kevään kukkien aikaan toivomme ettei olisi yötä, syksyllä kuutamossa, ettei päivä koittaisi.

Returning to where It used to see blossoms, My mind, changed, Will stay on at Yoshino... Home now, and see anew.

It's stained and frayed in such distinctive ways, but it's very definitely made out of wool. And now...now it's polyester, which means that I'm not lying on my carpet in my apartment. You have lived up to your reputation Mr Cobb. I'm still dreaming!

forgot that I would get old and lose the power that seemed entirely part of me, the power that allowed me to be busy and productive, rear three children, write books in the evening, and still get up and go to work.

In any moving forward, there is always a leaving behind.

As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay.

Helping your eldest to pick a college is one of the greatest educational experiences of life — for the parents. Next to trying to pick his bride, it's the best way to learn that your authority, if not entirely gone, is slipping fast.

There are long periods when life seems a small dull round, a petty business with no point, and then suddenly we are caught up in some great event which gives us a glimpse of the solid and durable foundations of our existence." The

Who are you when you are no longer who you are? What do you do with a self that is no longer your self? If you don't know who you are, how do you go on living? If you cannot live as yourself, who and what is it that you are living for?

Our story is over, though in its end lies its beginning.

The Marquis looked very grave and replied, 'I knew, of course, the minute whalebone corsets went out of fashion that things were coming to a pretty pass.

Another judgment pitfall you may encounter when trying to change a behavior is unconsciously expecting that others will change along with you.

The postmortem readjustment is one that many of us have had to make when our parents die. The parental door against which we have spent a lifetime pushing finally gives way, and we lurch forward, unprepared and disbelieving, into the rest of our lives.

My little boy was no more and even though he'd come home for vacations, our relationship would never be quite the same. Just as he would have to learn to be an adult in the world, so would I have to learn to live without him.

People change just in a blink! You won't get any explanation for that. They change in front of your eyes or behind of your eyes. Just they change unconditionally.

There would be no sequel to the sadness

From pulp you are and to pulp you shall return.

It seemed like everyone was wrapping themselves in chrysali and having late-in-life emergences as different kinds of creatures, and what this made clear was that we weren't becoming anything. We felt like caterpillars who didn't know that being a caterpillar wasn't the endgame. We felt like foamy pond water.

Sarah wasn't even called Sarah yet: she was still going by her birth name Sarai, but that name's warrior vibes didn't suit her and so mostly everyone just called her Sari.