Quotes About Transition

As the bride lets go of her singlehood identity, she prepares an internal space where her new identity as wife will eventually bloom.

All transitional times afford us the opportunity to redefine who we are; when we are in between identities, we become like a blank slate on which our past, present, and possible future are illuminated.

There's only so far you can take a relationship before you got to get into things that are too serious or over the top. I'm 20 years old. I was in a relationship with a girl I love for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.

If you asked an 18-year-old what they want to do with their life, and the options are 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he's probably shipping out for 'Transformers.' If you ask a 26-year-old what he wants to do, 'Transformers' or Lars von Trier, he'd probably pick Lars von Trier. So, my sensibilities are changing as I change.

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you've got to start thinking about other things, and I'm too young to think about those things.

All relationships eventually come to an end.

It was not me that changed; it was the situation that changed.

It is the leap from the age of territory to the age of science.

On the day I took office, the annual inflation rate in Israel had reached a horrific 400 percent.

you can actually taste the sources of unhappiness breaking up….The taste of purification can't be put into words, but its acquisition marks the transition to a mature spiritual palate…There is a taste that comes about, when a person experiences pleasure or pain with equanimity. It doesn't matter if…emotions or physical pain exist. Every moment of the future will become marginally less filled with suffering and more fulfilling….

We adapted to being at war, just as we had adapted to the chaos and upheaval of revolution".

Did you know that life is kind of like school? So how about when you're all done with the school of life,

Someday perhaps change will occur when times are ready for it instead of always when it is too late. Someday change will be accepted as life itself.

It's a big deal for me to say I'm over politics.

My solo album is dead and buried. We had the funeral. It was sad and I cried a lot but it made such a beautiful corpse that we had an open casket.

The first year holds trauma unlike any other. The second year is a time of learning hard lessons, facing harsh realities, understanding that you, alone, are responsible for the life change you must accept, the new life you must develop.

in order to move forward you have to stop looking back!

We must have beginner's mind, free from possessing anything, a mind that knows everything is in flowing change. Nothing exists but momentarily in its present form and color. One thing flows into another and cannot be grasped. Before the rain stops we hear a bird. Even under the heavy snow we see snowdrops and some new growth. In the East I saw rhubarb already. In Japan in the spring we eat cucumbers.

Even though it is midnight, dawn is here; even though dawn comes, it is nighttime.

You and I are just swinging doors.

I glanced at the sari lying on the rock where I had thrown it and I knew that I would never enter the girls' world again.

I find it impossible to imagine that the world will ever be normal again.

Vielleicht steht die Welt gerade am Beginn ihres Unterganges.

It's the damnedest thing: The dead abandon you; then, with the passage of time, you abandon the dead.