Quotes About Transition

There are two reasons people change. One is if they've opened their minds, the other if their hearts have been broken.

Just when you thought you'd reached a good place in life, a crisis could erupt and spill into the corners you thought most secure.

Rituals help us change modes.

Heads of state are notoriously ill prepared for their mature careers; think of Adolf Hitler (landscape painter), Ho Chi Minh (seaman), and our own Ronald Reagan.

time warp. But I was wrong. Something has changed." He

She suffered a tragedy, but she went on. It was the end of something but the beginning of something else." "Maybe." Her grandmother always talked about the importance of looking forward and not back.

I felt for the first time, maybe ever, how much harder it was to be the adults. And I wasn't sure I could do that when it was my turn.

Two classical and archetypal structures. . . . the stranger comes to town and the journey [Sharon Creech, "Leaping Off the Porch"].

Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next; I start planning again before we've even arrived back home.

Even when change is welcome, adapting to it doesn't always come easily

Life was going along smoothly, and then in a moment everything changed. It happened to me with my mother. It happened to Lockie at the Three Day. You do everything you can to right the ship of your life again, but it always lists a little.

Well, you know, life marches on. And sometimes we have to join the parade whether we want to or not.

When you're in between dreams, you get to lean back and relax and stop trying so hard. Trying to be somebody, I mean. It's not as exciting as being a television star, but it's not that bad, either. You just have to learn to be satisfied with the way you are for a while. Not Forever. Just until you're finished resting.

They've moved me to a new office and I don't like it at all. Different pigeons come to the window.

As for his sudden change of heart, he had suddenly remembered the end of Mansfield Park, and how Edmund fell out of love with Mary Crawford and came to care for Fanny. Dulcie must surely know the novel well, and would understand how such things can happen.

Letty allowed her to ramble on while she looked around the wood, remembering its autumn carpet of beech leaves and wondering if it could be the kind of place to lie down in and prepare for death when life became too much to be endured.

But at least it made one realize that life still held infinite possibilities for change.

I suppose by the time one is seventy one can say confidently and from a personal experiece that things will pass. At thirty one is still living experimentally, guessing that they will yet almost hoping that they will not.

Ageing, slightly mad and on the threshold of retirement, it was an uneasy combination and it was no wonder that people shied away from her or made only the most perfunctory remarks. It was difficult to imagine what her retirement would be like—impossibe and rather gruesome to speculate on it.

Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.

When you lose interest in something, you must always consider the possibility that you've gotten what you came for; you have completed your mission.

How does one become a butterfly?" she asked pensively. "You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar." —TRINA PAULUS

Qué es la vida sino el tránsito de las espinillas a las arrugas en pos de la sabiduría?

It changes, but in some lives change is a long time coming.