Transitions In Life Quotes

“I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“He'd lived so long in anticipation of his own death that to contemplate his future was like standing at the edge of a cliff, staring into a vertiginous rush of open sky.”
― Helene Wecker, The Golem and the Jinni

“In transitions, we must learn to be still. Being still is, in part, about learning to be comfortable with ambiguity.”
― Janet Rebhan, Learn To Be Still: Select Essays on the Spiritual Life

“The new is always at our doorstep when we feel most lost.”
― Janet Rebhan, Learn To Be Still: Select Essays on the Spiritual Life

“Two or three million years ago, the Earth was a ball of fire, revolving arround it's own axis. It took millions of years to cool under the constant downpour of rain. The Process was slow, imperceptible, but the gradual change - transition - came to pass. Same for generation after generation of evolution on Earth.

Nature never jumps. She works in a leisurely manner, experimenting continuously. The same natural transition can be seen in man. This gradual change, transition, works every where, silently building storms and destroying soloar systems.”
― Lajos Egri

“Laura knew then that she was not a little girl any more. Now she was alone; she must take care of herself. When you must do that, then you do it and you are grown up. Laura was not very big, but she was almost thirteen years old, and no one was there to depend on. Pa and Jack had gone, and Ma needed help to take care of Mary and the little girls, and somehow to get them all safely to the west on a train.”
― Laura Ingalls Wilder

“After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.”
― Brian D'Ambrosio, Life in the Trenches

“A transition period is a period between two transition periods.”
― George Stigler

“Life is a transition.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Learning to be a Life- Giving Mom without regrets requires embracing the season you are in. You have to let go of the past and live in the present as you lay hold of the future. At each transition you will likely shed some tears as you realize that you can’t go back and re-live the past. You must move forward, facing the imperfections of your present, hoping for the future.”
― Sue Detweiler, 9 Traits of a Life-Giving Mom: Replacing My Worst with Gods Best

“I am not a man of my time. In fact I find it hard not to declare myself its enemy. Not, as I often remark, that I fail to understand it. My comment is merely a pious one. Because I am easy-going I prefer not to be aggressive or hostile and therefore I say that I do not understand those matters which I ought to say I hate or despise. I have sharp ears but I pretend to be hard of hearing, finding as I do that is more elegant to feign this handicap than to admit that I have heard some vulgar sound”
― Joseph Roth, The Emperor's Tomb

“Carefree Scamps like you and I go through transition stages from time to time, and one of the exceptional things about life's challenges is that we get to discover what we’re truly capable of. You, my friend, are more spirited, resolute, and fearless than you can ever imagine. And on the flip side you’re more immoral and foolhardy than most people could ever dream of being.
Isn’t that great?”
― Karl Wiggins, Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe

“Life on earth is a transition.
Death is final rest of every man.
What legacy do you wish to live?”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person’s latent fears constantly whisper warnings.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“More than any other season, winter requires a kind of metronome that ticks away its darkest beats, giving us a melody to follow into spring. The year will move on no matter what, but by paying attention to it, feeling its beat, and noticing the moments of transition—perhaps even taking time to think about what we want from the next phase in the year—we can get the measure of it.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“The simplicity or complexity does not matter; I simply dream of us ritualizing and thus being transformed and offering transformation.”
― Amy F. Davis Abdallah, Meaning in the Moment: How Rituals Help Us Move through Joy, Pain, and Everything in Between

“We’re all given gifts in life, it’s what we do with them that shows us what we’ve learned.”
― Lise-Lotte Loomer, Greenhouse Hygge: The House of My Growing Dreams

“Nothing is impossible to those who see potential in their own eyes." ~Janiece Rendon”
― Janiece Rendon, Trust the Curves

“... I am halfway between two worlds, the known and the unknown. I feel as transparent as the wind, as if my spirit is hovering in the sky, waiting to land. I am driving toward a future I can't see, leaving behind a past that already feels distant. Nothing is clear - and yet the trees are sharp against the sky; I can see the hard outlines of everything.”
― Christina Baker Kline, The Way Life Should Be

“Those are the things we really seek in one another: As kids, we seek those who enjoy the same games and define fun the same way we do. As we get a bit older and our childhoods are robbed - all childhoods are robbed or broken; it is usually a sudden, violent transformation - we seek out those who relate to our transition. As teenagers, we rebel and we attempt to create a new reality. As young adults, we look to recapture it all and find the person who can relate to all of it, and we add a shade of shallowness to it. As adults, we come to the realization that we have been trying to recapture the simplicity of the purest form of love - happy love. We look for someone who can pull us out of the darkness of adulthood and ignite the simple, childish joys of life.”
― Hani Selim

“What remains, in fact? What else is there still right in front of us but the grass which grows and the mountains which erode, bodies which become heavy and faces which become emaciated, life which fecundates, or becomes exhausted, or rather which, while fecundating, is already starting to become exhausted? And vague expectations that crystallize into feverish passion, or else meetings that become less frequent. Or amorous complicities which, without being confessed, turn into relations of power? Or heroic revolutions which (without our being able to locate when) mutate into the privileges of the Party? Or else the wounds of yesterday which are displaced, buried and condensed, and then transcribe themselves into encrypted representation of dreams - and works which ripen in silence?”
― François Jullien, The Silent Transformations

“A person can cultivate a new persona from a pâté of earthy personal experiences. How do I reconcile all my faults and propagate all my innate gifts to create the type of self that I am happy to claim responsibility for authorship? How do I go about turning over the peat moss that lines the feldspar of my rocky existence? How do I plow under the seedlings of my youth and grow a protective bed of winter clover to shield my adulthood? How do I mulch the clippings from variegated personal experiences, ferment the rot, harrow new rows, and plant hardy spring wheat to take root in the enriched chocolate loam of a fertile mind? Is all this laborious plow pulling work of creating a fresh and authentic self-identify worth the backbreaking effort? How does one go about revamping their personal storyline? How do I cast myself into a robust image that does not appall other people? My continued existence entails industriously giving seed to the lush myths that I live by, amassing dwindling personal willpower, and resolving to impose upon my weathered soul the missing character traits that wait forging in the glowering inferno fed by a rising mountain of ignited personal anxiety.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“The flexible transition from story to history and from subsistency to sufficiency can smilingly ‘collide’ with the poor thus elevating his narrative from poverty to property.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“There's a moment
when you realize
that everything you've built
is about to crumble,
and all you can do is watch it.”
― Sean DeLaney

“There's no going back, Frankie. You have to find a way to go forward, become the new you. Fighting for who you were at twenty-one is a losing game. If that's what you've been trying for, no wonder you're struggling. The naive, idealistic girl who volunteered for war is gone. In a very real way, she died over there.”
― Kristin Hannah, The Women

“What if the point of menopause is to break up with our former self? It's transitional- you need to leave behind who you were- someone the world considered young, someone who could perhaps get pregnant, someone with far more time ahead of her than behind her. It might not be easy-breezy, but you have to embrace this new person, your present self.”
― Naomi Watts, Dare I Say It: Everything I Wish I'd Known About Menopause