Quotes About Transition

how to find meaning and fulfillment in the second half of our lives. In short, how to move from success to significance! Stephen R. Covey, Covey Leadership Center

Let Bob Buford be your guide to make sure your best years are ahead of you. Ken Blanchard, coauthor of The One-Minute Manager

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

We declare you the new mayor!" declares the crowd. what about the old mayor?" I'll ask. I'm not the one with the big plans!" he'll say.

I want to be world champion. I have achieved it, now I don't know what to do.

People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.

Times were changing. Clothes were changing. Morals were changing. We went from romantic loves songs like I used to do to rock 'n roll. Now that has changed to rap. So, there's always a new generation with new music.

Sie glaube, sagte Naomi sinngemäß, dass ihre Mutter, als sie von dem Turm sprang, das eigene Leben so schnell und doch würdig beendet habe, wie man ein Buch ohne richtige Handlung irgendwann zuklappt, statt es sklavisch zu Ende zu lesen.

No more coming home as to a death sentence. No more leaving after this leaving.

I cannot live in the new time anyway, because I belong to the old time, which is dead.

Why does Lao-tze say that to be born is to exit and to die is to enter?

Jól van ez így, gondolta az apu, minden visszatér a maga kezdeteihez, most látom, hogy valóban megállt az idÅ' és tényleg új kor vette kezdetét, ám nekem csak a régihez van kulcsom, az új idÅ' elÅ'ttem bezárattatott, és én már nem élhetek ebben az új idÅ'ben, mert az én helyem a régiben van, és az már halott.

This new age is melting you all down, because it's not the measles you've come down with, it's the epoch.

I always loved twilight: it was the only time I had the feeling that something important could happen.

and we seemed to be saying good-bye from trains rushing in opposite directions

as if climbing down a ladder

Graduation day is tough for adults. They go to the ceremony as parents. They come home as contemporaries. After twenty-two years of child-raising, they are unemployed.

This Olympics is almost a little sad. It is my final Olympics. There are a lot of good memories.

And loving a new person might even eventually dull the pain of having lost the people you have loved before, even if it didn't happen as quickly as you wanted it to. (p 99)

Journeying from despair into a transformed perspective, through energy, is common for many people who awaken without understanding or preparation

When we are in a deeply spiritual transition we can lose interest in work, social interactions, and other life activities. We can feel lost when a familiar enthusiasm has vanished or we struggle to find the motivation to engage the world. This is a stage of awakening. It can last for a long time, and our old drives will not return in the same familiar forms. Peter was thirty-eight when he had an abrupt and intense energy awakening and psychic opening.

Carl Jung observed that the very things that made you successful in the first half of your life not only no longer

Our work is borders, crossing them. Borders are a big attraction for me, leaving one country on the way to another, leaving one thought on the way to another, leaving our teens for our twenties, leaving East for West Germany. The liminal is the place to be. The bleeding edge. The demilitarized zones of the psyche, the gray ones of the heart. No-man's-land is yes-man's-land.

You see?" she said. "I've been leading you without you knowing it. Of course that's because you're new to the town, and you give yourself up to the guidance of an old citizen." "I'm not so sure, Miss Adams. It might mean that I don't care where I follow so long as I follow you.