Quotes About Transition

Mis relaciones con las cosas no están dadas, no son fijas; las creo minuto a minuto, algunas mueren, algunas nacen y otras resucitan. Sin cesar cambian.

of course, from birth to puberty the little girl grew up, but she never felt growth

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through.

and after saying good-by to him at the station, Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless.

Whatever she might become she would never be static.

flight from familiar tedium to new tedium would have for a time the outer look and promise of adventure.

Why had he ever gone abroad? It had unsettled him. He had been bored in Paris, yet he liked crepes Susette better than flapjacks; he liked leaning over the bridges of the Seine better than walking on Sixth Avenue; and he couldn't, just now, be very excited about the new fenders for the Revelation car. How was it that this America, which had been so surely and comfortably in his hand, had slipped away?

the youngsters in canoes were now singing My Old Kentucky Home. Zenith was still in the halcyon William Dean Howells days; not yet had it become the duty of young people to be hard and brisk, and knowing about radios, jazz, and gin.

But I wonder about Chapter Twenty. Will there be the deuce to play? . . . Just because life is more easy and human here, I feel more out of it.

Death is not a reaper, like they say, nor even a friend. It is a dark, fierce water, an inundation.

The charlatan is always the pioneer. From the astrologer came the astronomer, from the alchemist the chemist, from the mesmerist the experimental psychologist. The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

I pray that his lot may be a happier one in that life than it has been in this.

The long habit of living indisposeth us for dying

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last final awakening.

The step between time and eternity is short but terrible, and I have few moments to prepare for it.

O genera?ie nu r?scump?r? pe cea dinaintea ei

The only truth in life: Life goes on and things do change, for the better or even the worse

I was amazed at just how powerful it is to have something totally new, uncharted, and exciting to look forward to when your life falls apart.

Now, as I slowed down and Sabrina stepped away, I was faced with what I had been secretly running from: the death of my old life, as well as the fear of being all alone in this new one.

the divorce wasn't a failure, just a destined ending, and it was simply time for my journey to continue in a different direction.

There were days when I struggled with the feeling that I had wasted my life, remaining way too long in a marriage that wasn't working, and worried that it was now too late, or that I was too old, to ever have the kind of deep, comforting love and companionship I so yearned for and honestly felt I'd never fully had.

It won't be forever. You'll be in the dark for as long as it takes and then you'll come out.

If your life's at a juncture and you need to think about things, there's nowhere better than home. However old you are.

You don't always have to know who you are. Sometimes, it's enough just to know what to do next.