Quotes about Transition
Every one of us is called upon, perhaps many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job...And onward full-tilt we go, pitched and wrecked and absurdly resolute, driven in spite of everything to make good on a new shore. To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another--that is surely the basic instinct...Crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is.
— Barbara Kingsolver
I thought I wouldn't live through it. But you do. You learn to love the place somebody leaves behind for you.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Because I could not stop for death he kindly stopped for me, or paused at least to strike a glancing blow with his sky-blue mouth as he passed.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Having children was not like people said. Forget training them in your footsteps; the minute they put down the teething ring and found the Internet, you were useless as a source of anything but shoes and a winter coat.
— Barbara Kingsolver
That's high school for you, a bevy of people unfit for adult life encounters in any form.
— Barbara Kingsolver
No matter what kind of night you're having, morning always wins.
— Barbara Kingsolver
People change, she said. Not everything stays with you all your life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
The tree was intact, not cut or broken by wind. What a waste. After maybe centuries of survival it had simply let go of the ground, the wide fist of its root mass ripped up and resting naked above a clay gash in the wooded mountainside. Like herself, it just seemed to have come loose from its station in life.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Every one of us is called upon, probably many times, to start a new life. A frightening diagnosis, a marriage, a move, loss of a job or a limb or a loved one, a graduation, bringing a new baby home: it's impossible to think at first how this all will be possible. Eventually, what moves it all forward is the subterranean ebb and flow of being alive among the living.
— Barbara Kingsolver
Whole phases of her children's lives, these passions that had seemed to be their purest marrow, had faded away one after another. And character persisted.
— Barbara Kingsolver
No matter how long we've walked life's pathway to mediocrity, we can always choose to switch paths. Always. It's never too late. We can find our voice.
— Stephen Covey
The world has changed dramatically since The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People was first published. Life is more complex, more stressful, more demanding. We have transitioned from the Industrial
— Stephen Covey