Quotes about Transition

I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.

Often the trials we mourn are really gateways into the good things we long for.

I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it's left behind.

I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring. Because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again.

Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, my Love, that when death shall come, Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.

You shall leave everything you love.

Love changes, and in change is true.

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

No more Bethesda for you. No more waking up and going to sleep in the same mess. God dismantled the neutral gear from your transmission. He is the God of forward motion, the God of tomorrow. He is ready to write a new chapter in your biography.

Few, if any, survive their teens.