Quotes About Transition

It's always difficult when going from one field to another especially when you're the first person to make the jump and when you've had so much success in that first field. I got a lot of pushback but I kept going.

With the whole supermodel thing, even when you're not really modeling anymore people still call me that. And I'm like "...retired."

Community colleges play an important role in helping people transition between careers by providing the retooling they need to take on a new career.

The faith that had sustained them through their middle years had gotten as tight as their old clothes. Their views of God, scripture, the church, and the world were all under renovation.

The world for which you have been so carefully prepared is being taken away from you," he said, "by the grace of God.

It was when your partner left you that you remembered what else you meant to do in your life beyond staying together.

The journey in between what you once were and who you are now beoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

The journey in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming is where the dance of life really takes place.

People heal, sweetheart. We feel things, and then feelings change. People change. All the time.

The important part of growing older was the growing part. Resisting change meant forever standing still, which was a sad way to live.

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, . . . . Look at what you have now.

Being friends is different from being lovers. It's a sea change.

So where does that leave me? I like hosting the show....It's become my identity. If that's gone, where am I?

When the dust settled, they talked reasonably about the inevitability of change, the idea that they had to let go what might have been and accept what was.

Life is like a game of cards. It deals you different hands at different times. You don't have that old hand anymore, Leo. Look at what you have now.

Except she wasn't Vicki Bell anymore. She was Vicki Bell Beaudry, owner of the Red Fox with her husband, Rob, whose family was nearly as rooted in Bell Valley as the Bell family was, hence a questionable welcome there, too.

Because life isn't static," he says. "It keeps changing. We think we know where we are, then something happens and we're somewhere else, and we have to find our way all over again.

Sitting at my kitten's grave, I forgave myself for the last ten years. Wrong turns? No. I had acted in good faith, doing what I thought was right. But what was right, now, was seeing that my needs had changed. One of those new needs had just surfaced. I wanted a pet. I didn't care what kind; James could choose. Or not. He would argue against it, but when I thought of my baby and the

You showed me the side of life I was missing. The memory of it was here in Bell Valley, waiting for me. Now I have to go home and blend the two—right brain, left brain—rational, intuitive." I wasn't sure

Hope wasn't the future. It was only a vehicle to get there.

Barbara Delinsky

She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life.

Still there were times, as Jill whirled through her final preparations, when Emily stood watching her, wondering where the years had gone, wishing them back.

Turning off the machines is a technicality. Her mind is already gone. Her spirit lingers, but it's tied to her bed because we are. If we want it free, we have to do this for her." Molly heard an echo of her father and saw no inconsistency. Yes, Robin's soul was in heaven. Her spirit, though, was different. It was the part of her that lived on in everyone she left behind. In that regard, what Kathryn said made sense.