Lisa Kleypas Quotes

The familiar life horizon has been outgrown: the old concepts, ideals, and emotional patterns no longer fit; the time for the passing of a threshold is at hand.

But I started it when I was going through a transitional time in my life. At the end of it, it really sort of symbolized it. I had made room to change, and room to grow. I recorded it in a little room.

Six months later I was in Paris. I was 16, and it all started to happen.

My life has been about big changes.

I like any story that starts one place and really takes a huge journey to a whole new place; that people in their life want to take that journey. They want to be able to find things in their life that aren't working and work through them to a new place of change.

I just feel like my life changed in so many ways, and I'm just taking it all in.

I'm not gonna squeal out that this is my 23rd retirement, my real, real retirement. But you know there comes a time where you need to look to go in another direction in life, and I have entered that time.

Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.

One door closes and another one opens.

Sometimes we are lucky enough to know that our lives have been changed, to discard the old, embrace the new, and run headlong down an immutable course

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.

The summer ends and we wonder who we are And there you go, my friends, with your boxes in your car And today I passed the high school, the river, the maple tree I passed the farms that made it Through the last days of the century And I knew that I was going to learn again Again, in this less hazy light I saw the fields beyond the fields The fields beyond the field

I stand before you a changed man. Use me as an example of an instrument of change.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

There's something really magical about having a child - it's like permission to begin again, start over, reevaluate some things, check yourself. Recognize yourself. And that's kind of what happened with me - I realized, in a few places, I was going down the wrong path.

I have to reinvent myself.

Getting to a place of comfort can be uncomfortable.

I have a thing for doors. I always think of them as a threshold to something new.

When you lose something in your life, stop thinking it's a loss for you... it is a gift you have been given so you can get on the right path to where you are meant to go, not to where you think you should have gone.

You can divide my life into two.

Disenchantment, whether it is a minor disappointment or a major shock, is the signal that things are moving into transition in our lives.

Maybe a theme that touches all of my work is people reinventing themselves.

Adolescence is the conjugator of childhood and adulthood.