Quotes About Transition

arrived here he was still only a senator.

To ask for another relationship, or another job, is not particularly helpful if we're going to show up in the new situation exactly as we showed up in the last one.

growth can be messy.

The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins.

you keep trying all your old tricks, the ones that never did work but that you keep thinking might work this time. Once you've had enough and you can't do it

T]horoughly unprepared we take the step into the afternoon of life; worse still, we take this step with the false assumption that our truths and ideals will serve us as hitherto. But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning; for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie. — Carl Jung, Stages of Life

Midlife is about surrendering things that no longer matter, not because our lives are in decline, but because they're on an incline

There's a profound satisfaction in finally giving up something meaningless, for no other reason than that we did it to the max and now we're ready to move on.

We need to take an evolutionary leap forward

I had no idea that the gate I would step through to finally enter this world would be the space my brother's body made.

Where you're going is no better than where you are

Sometimes things fall apart so that better things can fall together

I've often been sorry to see a night end, even while I have loved seeing the dawn come.

It was probably best just to be quiet and wait until the conversation changed, as conversations will when no one is saying anything.

When people have wearied of life in Gilead, when they want another life altogether, they mention Chicago.

Leaving here is like waking from a trance.

And on that walk he said to me, John, you might as well know now what you're sure to learn sometime. This is a backwater - you must be aware of that already. Leaving here is like waking from a trance.

I was forty-five years old and tired of being an artist. Besides, I owed $20,000 to relatives, finance companies, banks and assorted bookmakers and shylocks. It was really time to grow up and sell out as Lenny Bruce once advised. So I told my editors 'OK, I'll write a book about the mafia, just give me some money to get started'.

Everything went right for him until that final year. Then why didn't he recover? Change or die he once said. That was what life was all about. And he simply couldn't change.

Aquí cambian las personas, teniente, nunca las cosas.

Había dejado de ser un peruano en muchos sentidos, sin duda. ¿Qué era, entonces? Tampoco había llegado a ser un europeo, ni en Francia, ni mucho menos en Inglaterra. ¿Qué eras, pues, Ricardito?

his eyes, he thought that in a few hours he, Lucrecia, and Fonchito would be crossing the skies, leaving behind the thick clouds

Se había acordado de algo que le dijo Trifulcio esa noche, la víspera de su partida a Lima, cuando caminaban a oscuras: estoy en Chincha y siento que no estoy, reconozco todo y no reconozco nada.

You know what I mean. That moment in a relationship in which, at the same time you discover you've been floating in air for 5 and 1/2 weeks you also discover that your feet have dropped a little closer to earth.