Quotes About Transition

El pasado se iba alejando como un paisaje que se va reduciendo poco a poco hasta convertirse en un punto en el espejo retrovisor mientras, delante de ella, a través del parabrisas, brillaba un futuro que reclamaba toda su atención.

You're not losing me. I'm just going away for a while. I'll be Ã¢â'¬Â¦

It is the end of the era of knowledge.

As the scholar Mark Singleton writes, from the fifteenth century until the beginning of the nineteenth century

Miss Thorne said no more. Poor boy, she thought, away from his loving home and now dumped with an irritable old man. Tom

We tend to see life as a continuum, but really, it's a series of phases, generating a series of different selves. You leave one life behind and start another. And each time, a different version of yourself emerges.

I might having something else for you. Follow me.

Remember that in change, no matter how strange or slight the chance, all hope lies.

The girls Iris went through wound up cracked vases no longer fit for flowers, leaky dust collectors. After Iris, girls left town or started fucking boys. She ruined everyone.

I barely knew her at all. She was on hold, someone I'd be friends with when she got her shit together. And then she died.

They were twenty-seven already, in no time at all they'd be thirty, terrifying. No one knew what would happen then. Michelle couldn't imagine anything more than writing zine-ish memoirs and working in bookstores.

Someday in the next thirty years, very quietly one day we will cease to be the brightest things on Earth. –JAMES MCALEAR

Originally, you were clay. From being mineral, you became vegetable. From vegetable, you became animal, and from animal, man…And you have to go through a hundred different worlds yet. There are a thousand forms of mind. —RUMI

The first chapter sells the book; the last chapter sells the next book.

Algo se marchitó de repente dentro de su ser: quizá la fe en la perennidad de la infancia.

Los grandes cambios rara vez resultan oportunos y consecuentes con nuestro particular estado de ánimo.

Hemos matado la cultura campesina pero no la hemos sustituido por nada, al menos, por nada noble

Todo se le vuelve decir que la infancia es un tesoro, pero la vida es un desatino, y los niños no la disfrutan en su afán de hacerse hombres.

Whatever life takes away from you, let it go

Porque el ángel de la muerte se lleva consigo el pasado para que la vida pueda continuar. Se lleva de cada momento pasado la parte que está muerta, y nosotros continuamos viviendo en el presente.

HerÅŸey eskisi gibi olsun diye bir ÅŸey olmaz.

Too many leaders focus all their energy on moving to the next chair as quickly as possible, and they miss the opportunity to develop their gifts in the current chair.

So what I'm getting at is this. Okay, maybe it's cold in the grave. Maybe you come out of the light and you think, Fuck your mother, this is bad. This is worse than anything I would have guessed. But the trick is to clench your teeth, get a running start and dive. When I hit that other country, from whose bourne no traveller back-pedals, I'm going to be moving fast. I'm gambling that the first ten seconds or so will be the worst.

That was the river, this is the sea.