Quotes about Transition

The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

I never agreed too much about players talking about former teammates when they go somewhere else. I've never been a fan of that.

I spent three weeks lamenting, ruminating and praying because football had been part of my life since age 6. Then I moved on. I'm glad I always had another clear plan. Several of my FSU teammates did not and do not. It's hard to leave a sport that is embedded in you.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.

There are times when two people need to step apart from one another, but there is no rule that says they have to turn and fire.

Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

Eventually you realize that your whole life up to now has been preparation, and you begin to suspect that the rest might be preparation, too.

I heard someone once say that the years from fifteen to nineteen are the best years in a girl's life.

I feel as if something has been torn suddenly out of my life and left a terrible hole. I feel as if I couldn't be I — as if I must have changed into somebody else and couldn't get used to it. It gives me a horrible lonely, dazed, helpless feeling. It's good to see you again — it seems as if you were a sort of anchor for my drifting soul.

Well, that was life. Gladness and pain...hope and fear...and change. Always change! You could not help it. You had to let the old go and take the new to your heart...learn to love it and then let it go in turn. Spring, lovely as it was, must yield to summer and summer lose itself in autumn. The birth...the bridal...the death...

Well, one can't get over the habit of being a liitle girl all at once.