Quotes About Transition

She knew she would never really recover. It was as though her pen ran out of ink while writing a letter. She had picked up another containing ink of a different color and continued; but even if the words and the lines of thought remained the same, something had altered.

The old phrases crack and meaning shakes out wet and new.

A man from another hemisphere, another background, coming to rest in middle life in the cottage of a half-neglected estate, an estate full of reminders of its Edwardian past, with few connections with the present. An oddity among the estates and big houses of the valley, and I a further oddity in its grounds. I felt unanchored and strange.

I left them all and walked briskly towards the aeroplane not looking back, looking only at my shadow before me, a dancing dwarf on the tarmac (122).

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

character with both progressive motivation and internal changes, congratulations.

I should like you to be on the verge of love but not yet quite in it. That's a very nice state of mind, while it lasts. -But of course, I had already dived over that verge and was swimming away in a blue sea of illusion towards, I supposed, the islands of the blest, but really towards domesticity, maternity and the usual lot of womankind.

The one certainty in life is that it changes.

Perhaps the phenomenon of synchronicity is serving to smooth the way from an age mired in the vibration of dense matter into an age that will flower in resonance with the vibration of the Soul.

He and Rafe were Light and Dark, Living and Undead. I was in this bizarre state where I felt like I hovered between the two states.

Don't ever wish the past was different than it is. It's always what brought you here. And here is where you are.

Nonetheless, that order has now been destabilized, which means that the rest of us are going to have to quickly figure out how to turn "managed degrowth" into something that looks a lot less like the Great Depression and a lot more like what some innovative economic thinkers have taken to calling "The Great Transition."56

To [Heartland president Joseph Bast], it looks like the end of the world. It's not, of course. But it is, for all intents and purposes, the end of his world.

You cannot advocate massive economic change in a country without that change having big political consequences.

is the new stability.

They come and go like seasons, the winter that gives no thought to the spring.

I remembered when my oldest brother married Malgosia, and suddenly the two of them stopped running around with us and started sitting with the parents: a very solemn kind of alchemy, one that I felt shouldn't have been able to just sneak up on me.

You learn to feel it less, child; or you learn to love other things.

And then he shoved me through the gate.

It was exactly what I wanted, only once I was in it, I didn't want it after all.

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Nuestro sino es marcharnos [...]. No hemos de quedarnos para siempre.

Maybe when your mother died young, you became instantly old.

To know the difference, you must run this mountain without pause. In the evening or the afternoon, you must cross the first fields waking to your footsteps, stormwashed at the foothills. In the evening or the afternoon, in the closing of a shadowline, you must read aloud the reddened last words of this canyon's leaves to the trees that clap their hands.