Quotes About Transition

Idries Shah, Caravan of Dreams

What goes into a salt-mine becomes salt.

Idries Shah, The Dermis Probe

As long as you keep on walking on the old paths, you will never have footprints on the new paths!

Death is the final destiny of every soul.

I'm who i wasn't yesterday and who i won't be tomorrow.

Perplexity is the beginning of a new way.

Sleep is the boundary between being/existence and not-being/non-existence.

What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

It is a strange thing to come home. While yet on the journey, you cannot at all realize how strange it will be.

Change comes not from men and women changing their minds, but from the change from one generation to the next.

Somewhere in your career, your work changes. It becomes less anal, less careful and more spontaneous, more to do with the information that your soul carries.

It took me a little while to remember how to use a fork. You know, we don't use forks in the penitentiary. You get a spoon.

American politics used to be an amateur sport. But somewhere along the way, we handed over to professionals all the things people used to do for free.

All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.

'm so fortunate to have done what I love to do for so long, but the day I retired was one of the best days of my life. Not because I was happy to get away from the sport, but because it was clear in my mind that I had done all I possibly could, and that it was time to go.

There will be a time when I physically cannot do this sport.

Up until the age of 16, I was very focused on sport - I played a lot of football. Then I tore my ACL and had to stop playing.

I lost more then 6 kilograms when I ceased with the top sport. That were all muscles. They are now gone.

I left my sport when I knew I had nothing more to give.

As a driver, it was easy to find the negative in things. But when I got out of the car, everything about the sport, my whole perception of just about everything in the sport, did a 180.

I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.

I never got into sports at all until I was in my early 20s, after my music career got going.

I was a normal guy with a job at Costco, thinking about going back to school. I played sports; I hung out with my friends. I wanted to make something of myself, but I didn't know what.