Quotes about Transition

Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

You shall leave everything you love.

Love changes, and in change is true.

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

No more Bethesda for you. No more waking up and going to sleep in the same mess. God dismantled the neutral gear from your transmission. He is the God of forward motion, the God of tomorrow. He is ready to write a new chapter in your biography.

Few, if any, survive their teens.

after all, girls have to giggle, and after being a woman for theee years I was about to become a girl.

There is a time in every man's life when he must push off from the wharf of safety into the sea of chance.

When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness." —

Last year changed its seasons subtly, stripped its sultry winds for the reds of dying leaves, let gelid drips of winter ice melt onto a warming earth and urged the dormant bulbs to brave the pain of spring. We, loving, above the whim of time, did not notice. Alone. I remember now.

Even recovery brings losses, more changes we must struggle to accept.