Quotes about Transition

Human beings are very good at adapting to what happens.

I leave from where the apostle arrived.

How often it is a small, almost unconscious event that marks a turning point.

My pastor used to say you're either coming out of a tough season, in the middle of a tough season, or heading into a tough season.

To step toward your destiny, you might have to step away from your security.

We have to hate our immediate predecessors to get free of their authority.

No matter how much we may love the melody of a bygone day or imagine the song of a future one, we must dance within the music of today, or we will always be out of step, stumbling around in something that doesn't suit the moment.

Grief and a change of location can often be more than the mind and body can handle.

Perhaps this rebirth from one thing to another happens repeatedly in a lifetime. Maybe life is a series of little deaths and rebirths, of passages and rites of passage, of God teaching you to stop clinging to one thing so you can reach for another.

Eventually, you must stop running to something or from something and embrace where you are. Otherwise you'll never embrace anything.

The past must be let go before the future can be grasped.

I leaf through more pages, wondering, remembering, thinking about this watershed year. Life can turn on a dime. The appointment book reinforces my new awareness of this. We plan our days, but we don't control them.