Quotes About Transition

The signs shifted in my mind like a kaleidoscope of visions.

Things are always darkest just before they go pitch black.

That West was long gone, the West of the imagination.

He guessed he could see now, in the darkness of this room, with this new place throbbing around him, how going back could be like dying. It was the first time he had seen it that way; and from that angle, the betrayal was somehow not so huge.

It's harder to make a banker out of a hoss thief than a hoss thief out of a banker.

Old age makes you a stranger in your own country.

laundromats . . . like a waiting room for people who didn't go anywhere

She leaped into widowhood with glee.

If we read Girls in the context of the earlier Sex and the City, the contrast between the two adds a dimension to the later serials's world. The impact of the financial crises has shifted the possibilities that had been opened to the characters. They live in contrast to the dreams they saw represented when they were younger.

It's as if I'm afloat in a sea of change. Each piece of wreckage to which I cling has limited buoyancy and soon sinks, forcing me to hold tightly to another and then another.

the only way to get there was to burn through capitalism, to get through that unavoidable stage as fast as possible.

Me dio miedo dejar el laboratorio —dice— pero no tanto como la perspectiva de quedarme en él. Mi consejo es que si estás pensando en dar este tipo de salto, lo mejor es que hagas como un lemming y saltes.»

It can be just as helpful to focus on the immediate next steps. Beginning the journey, and being willing to explore various pathways, can be as productive as setting out with a final destination in mind.

I went to Duke University in the medical track. And then I decided I wanted to do something more creative, so I switched to biochemistry at Nebraska.

I was a leaf that had released its hold on the tree. This was my moment of motion, of flight – my solitary dance through the air, separate from my billion twins. No longer green and faceless on the tree, not yet crushed and decomposing on the forest floor.

Most folks remember who they used to be, but they got no idea who they are right now.

I mean, well, really, it seems to me, when I think about it, sometimes, you were much happier, and so was I, when we had the roadhouse. Weren't we? For that matter, it was a lot more fun when you were a race-track detective. Heavens, even the all-night broadcasting job. It was crazy, but I liked it.

Here today, up and off to somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!

The flow of energy moves from the unseen - the non-physical - to the seen, to that which appears; from the realm of that which is not yet manifest to the realm of appearance; from what the American Indian call the 'Nagual' to the 'Tonal', to the everyday world of 'ordinary' existence.

There are so many little dyings How do we know which one of them is death?

There are so many little dyings that it doesn't matter which of them is death.

It is high time that we grew up and left the Garden. We are indeed Eden's children, yet it is time to place Genesis alongside the geocentric myth in the basket of stories that once, in a world of intellectual naivete, made helpful sense. As we walk through the gates, aware of the dazzling richness of the genuine biological world, there might even be a smile on the Creator's face — that at long last His creatures have learned enough to understand His world as it truly is.

I renounced what I considered to be my Christian faith at around age seventeen, not without fear and trembling. I found the idea of using God as a crutch totally distasteful. I preferred to be on my own. In hindsight I now see that my apparent abandonment of "faith" has actually paved the way for real faith. Sometimes, it is necessary to tear down the old so that the new can be built.

I came out from the Father and have come into the universe. Again I leave the universe behind and proceed on my way to the Father.