Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth...transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal — William Bridges
Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind. — Fred Rogers
It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions. — William Bridges
Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives. — William Throsby Bridges
Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations. — Alan Dundes
When you have a life milestone happen, it's good to step back and reassess the things you thought you knew about yourself. — Emily Yoffe
Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change. — William Bridges
We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you'll have no problem. — Chogyam Trungpa
Being a kid's not easy. You're transforming and becoming a human being. At some point, you have everyone taking care of you, and then, all of a sudden, you're out in the world. — Jocko Willink
Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next? — Mike Shinoda
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. — Harrison Ford
A woman's life can really be a succession of lives, each revolving around some emotionally compelling situation or challenge, and each marked off by some intense experience. — Wallis Simpson
Life is a succession of crises and moments when we have to rediscover who we are and what we really want. — Jean Vanier
Like the seasons of the year, life changes frequently and drastically. You enjoy it or endure it as it comes and goes, as it ebbs and flows. — Burgess Meredith
Short Life Transition Quotes
Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant. — Joan Didion
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. — Leo Tolstoy
I love that blurry place where life’s transitions are made without you even knowing it. — Ann Brashares
A change of circumstance happens as a result of a change in your state of consciousness. — Neville Goddard
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
Adaptation is not always a smooth process. — Bret Weinstein
Life happens. Adapt. Embrace change, and make the most of everything that comes your way. — Nick Jonas
Know when your space is too small for you...and you have to birthed to the next level! — T. D. Jakes
Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support. — Bruce Lee
Life Transition Image Quotes
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and, if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.
Life Can Change Quotes
When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Keep grindin' boy, your life can change in one year, And even when it's dark out, the sun is shining somewhere — J. Cole
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced. — James A. Baldwin
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
With everything that has happened to you, you can either feel sorry for yourself or treat what has happened as a gift. Everything is either an opportunity to grow or an obstacle to keep you from growing. You get to choose. — Wayne Dyer
You can change your wife, your politics, your religion, but never, never can you change your favourite football team. — Eric Cantona
If you can't do anything about it then let it go. Don't be a prisoner to things you can't change. — Tony Gaskins
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people's book and write your own.
Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. — Steve Jobs
A mother's love is like a beacon, Burning bright with Faith and Prayer, And through the changing scenes of life, We can find a haven there. — Helen Steiner Rice
You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
Wherever you go, God is with you - watching over you, protecting you, and providing the truth you need for every situation. The question is, will you open your heart to His Word, apply it to your life, and allow God to change you so that He can use you in ways far greater than you can imagine? — Charles Stanley
Life Journey Quotes
Without music, life is a journey through a desert. — Pat Conroy
If the path before you is clear, you're probably on someone else's. — Joseph Campbell
Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. It is not far. It is within reach. Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know. Perhaps it is everywhere - on water and land. — Walt Whitman
Some days I wish I could go back in life. Not to change anything, but to feel a few things twice.
Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride! — Hunter S. Thompson
The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. — Tony Robbins
Getting knocked down in life is a given. Getting up and moving forward is a choice.
No matter who you are or what your life has been like so far, the rest of your life's journey can be different. With God's help you can begin again. — Billy Graham
There exists within everyone a grand passion, an outlandish thirst for adventure, a desire to live boldly and vividly through the journey of life. — Kurt Hahn
Life is a journey. When we stop, things don't go right. — Pope Francis
We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share.This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity. — Paulo Coelho
Life Is Changing Quotes
Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change. — Buddha
Life is not a problem to be solved, but an experience to be had. — Alan Watts
You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine. — John C. Maxwell
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. — Maya Angelou
Two basic rules of life are: 1) Change is inevitable. 2) Everybody resists change. — W. Edwards Deming
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. Tip top if you must, but take the step.
The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless
Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter. — Sharon Salzberg
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different. — C. S. Lewis
For me, a landscape does not exist in its own right, since its appearance changes at every moment; but the surrounding atmosphere brings it to life - the light and the air which vary continually. For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value. — Claude Monet
Journey Through Life Quotes
Every day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
We all leave footprints as we journey through life--make sure yours are worth following. — Bob Teague
The moon and sun are travelers through eternity. Even the years wander on. Whether drifting through life on a boat or climbing toward old age leading a horse, each day is a journey, and the journey itself is home. — Matsuo Basho
Don't wait for everything to be perfect before you decide to enjoy your life.
With so many scientific achievements we know so little of where we came from and where we are going. But we know even less of the most important discovery of all – Love. Only love can accept our differences as we journey through life. And only love can allow space for our growth. — Akiane Kramarik
Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter. — Dr. Seuss
Purpose is the ultimate fuel for our journey through life. When we drive with purpose we don't get tired or bored and our engines don't burn out. — Jon Gordon
Don't compare your life to others. There's no comparison between the sun and the moon. They shine when it's their time.
It is unlikely that your actual path through life will match the exact journey you had in mind when you set out. — James Clear
Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly. — Peter Guber
Each one of us has our own evolution of life, and each one of us goes through different tests which are unique and challenging. But certain things are common. And we do learn things from each other's experience. On a spiritual journey, we all have the same destination. — A. R. Rahman
I'll always push myself because that's the journey of life. We do go through things. Some of it's incredibly great and some of it's really bad. — Andrew Dice Clay
Death is but a transition from this life to another existence where there is no more pain and anguish. All the bitterness and disagreements will vanish, and the only thing that lives forever is love. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage and age of life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the blessings will flow. — T. D. Jakes
I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality. — Raymond Moody
Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, . . . — Betty Eadie
I remember when A love Supreme was released - I heard it at a friends house. ... Man it was incredible. That record sounded different than the rest. I was trying to gather my spirituality together, trying to get an understanding of life ..... I felt Coltrane was the first musician who made a transition from one side to the other. — Maurice White
we are the ones we have been waiting for — Alice Walker
When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that. — Wilma Rudolph
I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny. — Hans Kung
I believe every person has a guardian spirit or angel. They assist us in the transition between life and death and they also help us pick our parents before we are born. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I believe that transgender people, including those who have transitioned, are living out real, authentic lives. Those lives should be celebrated, not questioned. Their health care decisions should be theirs and theirs alone to make. — Gloria Steinem
The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in. — George Saintsbury
We postpone the finality of heartbreak by clinging to hope. Though this might be acceptable during early or transitional stages of grief, ultimately it is no way to live. We need both hands free to embrace life and accept love, and that's impossible if one hand has a death grip on the past. — Kristin Armstrong
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
I'm not a big crime reader, but I'm reading Michael Connelly's 'The Reversal.' I'm going back to his novels. I'm also reading Keith Richards' 'Life.' I'm always fascinated by the transition from the innocent late '60s and early '70s and the youth culture becoming an industry. — Jo Nesbo
The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window. — Ajay Naidu
Life is one big transition. — Willie Stargell
When seasons change in our life, it's difficult. Because it feels like loss and no one likes loss. And I go through, how do you do that? How do you take that transition without losing it in the curve? — Paula White
I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it. — Jack Kerouac
There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life. — Paul Clitheroe
The preamble of thought, the transition through which it passes from the unconscious to the conscious, is action. Only so much do I know, as I have lived. Instantly we know whose words are loaded with life, and whose not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Once again, Kirk Franklin takes the church beyond the traditional, transitioning his life's experiences into life lessons. Clearly there is more to this man than great music. You will feel the beat of his heart and faith. — T. D. Jakes
Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
One of the secrets to life is saying yes to change and allowing things to transition, but I also think you have to mark the time and give thanks for all that it gave you. — Josh Radnor
The institution of a leisure class has emerged gradually during the transition from primitive savagery to barbarism; or more precisely, during the transition from a peaceable to a consistently warlike habit of life. — Thorstein Veblen
When a person who has had highly evolved past lives is going through a strong past-life transit, that person comes to know things about life, death and other dimensions that most people in our world aren't aware of. — Frederick Lenz
It was a major dream come true at last. In many respects, Jerusalem is a very modern and important story about people in a period of transition, with all the unrest that permeates society on the eve of a new century. The big life issues are at stake. — Bille August
We're generating an enormous amount of content geared at this young professional woman, which has been resonating strongly. We also have been creating solution-oriented products for that same person that will help her transition in life through her many roles, whether they may be mother, girlfriend, professional, and really everything in between. — Ivanka Trump
I don't see myself as having made the transition. I aim to be more transient than transitional. Life is constantly changing, now at a rate faster than ever, so being in a transitory state is the best way to keep pace. — Marc Forster
Too soon we breast the tape and too late we realize the fun lay in the running. We deny that the end justifies the means without ever stopping to consider that for practical purposes the End and the Means are one and the same thing. If there is to be any satisfaction in life it must come in transit, for who can tell when he will be struck down in mid-method? — Walt Kelly
A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors. — Chinua Achebe
I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person. — Carl Paladino
Some people manage to make that transition from child actor to adult actor seamlessly. But I felt that if I spent my whole life on a film set without taking a few years to do something else, all I would ever know about was film sets. — Anna Popplewell
I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life. — Uri Geller
The Earth, time, concepts, love, life, faith justice, evil - they're all fluid and in transition. They don't stay in one form or in one place forever. The whole universe is like some big FedEx box. — Haruki Murakami
I am interested in marginality, in immaturity, in naïveté, in illusion, in fictions, in transitions, in the fact that at a certain moment in life there is no limit. I would like my photography to pose a question rather than make a precise statement. — Lise Sarfati
To have attained to the human form is a source of joy... What an incomparable bliss it is to undergo these countless transitions. — Zhuangzi
I experienced the reality of the spiritual body and learned that it has every faculty of the physical body, though with greater sensitivity and some dimensions added... There will be nothing shocking in the transition, only a continuation of who I am now. — Catherine Marshall
I was destined to work with dying patients. I had no choice when I encountered my first AIDS patient. I felt called to travel some 250,000 miles each year to hold workshops that helped people cope with the most painful aspects of life, death and the transition between the two. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
I definitely have friends who - they've gone to multiple jobs, they've had trouble finding jobs, some have gone back to school - it's a very transitional period in anyone's life. I think definitely people have, even like my girlfriend for example, she works her job - and just the fact that she has a job - she just feels super lucky in this economy. But it can really shape, I think, the way you view the world. — Chris Baio
It must be good to die in Toronto. The transition between life and death would be continuous, painless and scarcely noticeable in this silent town. I dreaded the Sundays and prayed to God that if he chose for me to die in Toronto, he would let it be on a Saturday afternoon to save me from one more Toronto Sunday. — Leopold Infeld
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