Quotes About Transitions In Life

#1. The natives believed in the circle of life which consisted of three main functions or transitions in life, the birth, death and rebirth.

Sally May

#2. Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.

Gordon T. Smith

#3. The most powerful times in our lives can be the time between times, or life's transitions that give us the opportunity to choose.

Bill Crawford

#4. 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

#5. Then before I knew it, his considerable girth was inside me, stretching my virgin passage almost to the point of tearing, and he was thrusting into me as if he were trying to drive me completely through the mattress to the floor beneath.

Cristina Rayne

#6. In ancient times, determinism rested on a belief in an omniscient God. Today, it is not old-time religion, but, rather, our culture's newfound faith - science - that challenges the belief in free will.

Jeffrey M. Schwartz

#7. The new is always at our doorstep when we feel most lost.

Janet Rebhan

#8. A little bit of one story joins onto an idea from another, and hey presto, ... not old tales but new ones. Nothing comes from nothing.

Salman Rushdie

#9. To have attained to the human form is a source of joy ... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions.

Zhuangzi

#10. If we prepare ourselves for life's inevitables, we will not be perplexed by life's transitions.

Jack Hyles

#11. The author says our prayers are misdirected when we ask God that He help us to love Him more. If we pray to him more, we will love Him more.

Jen Pollock Michel

#12. The reason I don't play any of the old songs is because I really honor my old band, and I think that those songs are best served within the context of that band.

Billy Corgan

#13. In transitions, we must learn to be still. Being still is, in part, about learning to be comfortable with ambiguity.

Janet Rebhan

#14. I am giving birth. I am midwife to myself. Now is a new life full of possibilities. I must be strong like a child.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

#15. I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

#16. Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

Alan Dundes

#17. I am going through transformation. I enjoy the different transitions.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Over the course of my life, I have made many transitions - most of them taking me further away from my Somali roots and steadily toward the enlightened mentality of Western democracy.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#19. Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

Rick Warren

#20. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

John Dryden

#21. Not having children is seen as supremely selfish, as though the people having children were selflessly sacrificing themselves in a valiant attempt to ensure the survival of our endangered species and fill up this vast and underpopulated island of ours.

Geoff Dyer

#22. Change, even if unwelcome, forces us to reevaluate what our best options are. Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.

Dan Miller

#23. Keep lipping off, and I'll find a use for that tongue."
"Keep dreaming, man-whore.

Amelia Hutchins

#24. What is a goal, without a vison?
Who is a woman without a mission?
What is life without decisions?
Why live if not for transitions?

Renee' A. Lee

#25. Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war, only patriots - or traitors.

Stephen A. Douglas

#26. After you have seasoned your gloves with the blood, sweat and tears of your opponents, all else is anticlimactic.

Brian D'Ambrosio

#27. When the seasons change, we experience a sympathetic internal shift. All life-forms open themselves up to receive cosmic redirection from nature during these crucial seasonal transitions, so we are likely to be more vulnerable and unsettled.

Maya Tiwari

#28. Life is a transition.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#29. What was said before is not important.

Ahmed Chalabi

#30. Many people define beauty as skin deep, but I've found the beauty in physical and superficial changes that continue throughout the life of a woman.

Alyscia Cunningham

#31. Patricia could see Remy dead. Her perfect corpse floating face down in the Oaxacan tiled infinity pool, her flawless stomach distended with decomposition gases, eyes fixed and dilated.

Shannon Bradley-Colleary

#32. Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.

Shae Ross

#33. I love that blurry place where life's transitions are made without you even knowing it.

Ann Brashares

#34. Transitional periods in life are unsettling because a person's latent fears constantly whisper warnings.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#35. I'm unhappy. I don't want to fall in love with you. It'll hurt far too much when it's over

Stieg Larsson

#36. When I try to outline the history of ethical life, it's sometimes possible to find evidence for a hypothesis about how important transitions actually went. Often, however, that isn't so. There are many facts about human life in the Paleolithic we're never likely to know.

Philip Kitcher