Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.