Quotes about Transition
Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.
- Oprah Winfrey
Everything that occurs teaches and prepares you for the next stage of life. Nothing is lost.
- Zig Ziglar
How did you go bankrupt? Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.
- Ernest Hemingway
It came very fast and the sun went a dull yellow and then everything was gray and the sky was covered and the cloud came on down the mountain and suddenly we were in it and it was snow.
- Ernest Hemingway
In the fall the war was always there, but we did not go to it anymore.
- Ernest Hemingway
You could not go back. If you did not go forward what happened?
- Ernest Hemingway
You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person had died for no reason.
- Ernest Hemingway
That was called transplanting yourself, I thought, and it could be as necessary with people as with other sorts of growing things.
- Ernest Hemingway
No, he thought, when everything you do, you do too long, and do too late, you can't expect to find the people still there. The people all are gone. The party's over and you are with your hostess now.
- Ernest Hemingway
Belmonte was no longer well enough. He no longer had his greatest moments in the bull-ring. He was not sure that there were any great moments. Things were not the same and now life only came in flashes.
- Ernest Hemingway
As children, we were afraid of the dark. Now as adults, we are afraid of the light. We are afraid to step out. We are afraid to become more.
- Andy Andrews
Do not be afraid for yourself, Darrel. You can make the same journey one day—you can join her if you choose to do so. And don't be afraid for her. She is fine. Remember . . . she is getting ready to breathe.
- Andy Andrews