Quotes About Transition

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.

The journey between what you once were and who you are now becoming is where the dance of Life really takes place

They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them.

Behold, these things pass away, that others may replace them, and so this lower universe be completed by all his parts.

For if eternity and time are rightly distinguished by this, that time does not exist without some movement and transition, while in eternity there is no change, who does not see that there could have been no time had not some creature been made, which by some motion could give birth to change.

Passing hence from infancy, I came to boyhood, or rather it came to me, displacing infancy. Nor did that depart,—(for whither went it?)—and yet it was no more.

True progress quietly and persistently moves along without notice.

Your dream died? Fine. Give it a decent burial and dream a new dream.

When you bring puppies home, it can take a few days before they feel comfortable enough to be themselves. The move from the breeder to your house is emotionally trying and it makes them exhausted and super docile. When they get comfy with you and their surroundings, they just become normal puppies, and everything that goes with that.

When I was a little girl my mom would make us peanut butter and jelly sandwiches for lunch at least three times a week, crusts cut off, sliced twice on the bias for triangles for me, and into long fingers for Gilly. I eventually moved from smooth peanut butter and grape jelly to chunky peanut butter and strawberry preserves to fresh natural peanut butter with homemade damson plum jam or peach coriander confiture.

You have to let go of who you were to allow yourself to become who you are.

The days draw out, the weather gets warmer, and it's what we call summer, with a bitter laugh when we've said it.

I can't imagine myself at that age with all my troubles behind me and nothing left but pottering in the garden till the end.

You can change your faith without changing gods, and vice versa.

Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.

Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.

There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.

A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.

The first requisite for immortality is death.

La voz de la conciencia también pasa por un cambio de voz

Either I get Frank's job as president, or I'm going to leave the company. JEFFREY KATZENBERG TO DISNEY CHAIRMAN MICHAEL EISNER LESS THEN THIRTY-SIX HOURS AFTER THE DEATH OF DISNEY NUMBER TWO, FRANK WELLS

So while you're an athlete, and you have that platform, what you want to be able to do is make it work for you as much as possible, because there's going to be life after sports.

On the day I lost my passport I discovered, at the age of fifty-eight, that losing one's native land implies more than parting with a circumscribed area of soil.

But since those days in Vienna I had been aware that Austria was lost, not yet suspecting, to be sure, how much I had lost thereby.