Quotes About Transition

I am afraid that it will all be ruined. It is like stepping out into the darkness when one has a world of light and warmth behind one.

It was hard to leave. But it was impossible to stay. He was leaving from choice because he was young and energetic and adventurous and had long wanted to carve a life of his own. He was going to new possibility, new dreams. But he was leaving behind places and people. And though, being young, he was sure he would see them all again some day, he knew too that many years might pass before he did so. It was not easy to leave.

Ben walked into the house and up the stairs with his two canes, but he propelled himself about much of the time after that in a wheeled chair, having decided that it was not an admission of defeat but rather a moving forward into a new, differently active phase of his life.

One of the most horrible realities about the death of someone closely related, she remembered, was the necessity of going on almost immediately with the trivialities of living. As though nothing of any real significance had changed.

No hay ningún estado que podamos alcanzar y mantener eternamente. Por desgracia

turned over a new leaf

Flowers that grow where old ones have withered serve to remind us that death will one day come to us all.

Those of us with water in our personalities don't pick where we'll flow to. All we can do is flow where the landscape of our lives carries us

Perhaps it seems odd that a casual meeting on the street could have brought about such change. But sometimes life is like that isn't it

The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.

As a young girl I believed my life would never have been a struggle if Mr.Tanaka hadn't torn me away from my tipsy house. But now I know that our world is no more permanent than a wave rising on the ocean. Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

I understood that he left me at the end of his long life just as naturally as the leaves fall from the trees.

I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. If I'd never met Mr. Tanaka, my life would have been a simple stream flowing from our tipsy house to the ocean. Mr. Tanaka changed all that when he sent me out into the world.

Every time I caught a glimpse of myself in the glass of a shop, I felt I was someone to be taken seriously; not a girl anymore, but a young woman.

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill , going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course

Llevamos nuestras vidas como el agua que corre colina abajo, más o menos en una dirección, hasta que damos con algo que nos obliga a encontrar un nuevo curso.

Premda sam imala samo ?etrnaest godina, ?inilo mi se kao da sam ve? živjela dva života. Moj novi život još uvijek nije pravo zapo?eo, iako je moj stari život završio prije dosta vremena.

We topped the ridge a few moments later, and the town of Senzuru came into view below us. The day was drab, everything in shades of gray. It was my first look at the world outside Yoroido, and I didn't think I'd missed much. I could see the thatched roofs of the town around an inlet, amid dull hills, and beyond them the metal-colored sea, broken with shards of white. Inland, the landscape might have been attractive but for the train tracks running across it like a scar.

Mi živimo svoj život kao voda koja te?e nizbrdo, kre?u?i se manje ili više u istom pravcu dok ne pljusnemo u nešto što nas prisili promijeniti smjer.

Tuga je vrlo neobi?an osje?aj, tako smo bespomo?ni kad se s njome suo?imo. To je nešto poput prozora koji se otvara po vlastitoj volji. Soba se hladi, a mi možemo samo bespomo?no drhtati. Me?utim, prozor se svaki put otvori malo manje, pa još manje i jednog se dana pitamo gdje je nestao.

Ne?u re?i da su da su mi se emocije staložile do sljede?eg jutra kad se vlak zaustavio na peronu kolodvora u Kyotu. Napokon kad baciš kamen u ribnjak, voda još dugo treperi i nakon što je kamen potonuo na dno.

La pena es una cosa extraña; nos deja totalmente desamparados. Es como una ventana que se abriera sola; la habitación se queda fría y lo único que podemos hacer es tiritar. Pero cada vez se abre un poco menos, hasta que un día nos preguntamos qué habrá pasado con ella.