Quotes About Transition

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets in the future.

Everyone who had reason to work with him agreed that he'd changed. A lot of his confidence seemed to have gone. He was less sure of himself, less prepared to take a risk or two, somehow smaller. Maybe it was something that would pass, said some. Maybe not.

There is no "mid" about it. Life is a crisis from the cradle to the grave.

Today's Tuesday. You were Monday.

Some people you can't be friends with, not when you've been something more.

more apparent as I got off the plane and headed to the taxi stand. There was no point

If in Los Angeles in 1949 he had preached "fast and loud," by the time he got to New York in 1957 he had learned to dial down the speed and let the microphone do the heavy lifting.

In less than a year, the Bush administration will strut out of office, leaving the country in roughly the same condition a toddler leaves a diaper.

Thought moves like a dissociation of leaves across a lawn in a breeze.

Aden would phone before he left, trying to patch things up, but she could see how easy it would be, now, to break things off permanently. And now that it had reached that stage, it seemed like the obvious thing to do. She wasn't upset, or relieved – just calm. It always made her feel that way: burning bridges, driving people away. Simplifying her life. She'd

I look up at her. "Let's not make a big deal of this. It's time for me to become a machine.

Aden would phone before he left, trying to patch things up, but she could see how easy it would be, now, to break things off permanently. And now that it had reached that stage, it seemed like the obvious thing to do. She wasn't upset, or relieved - just calm. It always made her feel that way: burning bridges, driving people away. Simplifying her life.

don't rely on death to be the climax of your stories. Dying isn't interesting. It's what we do while we're dying that matters.

you have to leave something behind to go forward -Newton's Third Law of Motion

In sports, people reach their peak very early. You have to move on. I don't know if I will ever surpass what I did at the Olympics, but I'm still doing the work I always wanted to do.

Parents will claim a Christian identity which their kids will slough off by young adulthood.

Indeed, during their final days the terminally ill are often said to be almost living in two worlds, swapping nonchalantly between chatting with palliative carers and family physically present in the room, and interacting with visions of previously deceased individuals who appear to be – in some way – there to help them through the dying process.

There's a subtle yet significant difference between leaving our jobs, friends, and romances because we're complete and staying with them because of the fear that there's nothing else for us!

The Age of Discovery in science is coming to a close, opening up an Age of Mastery … today, we are on the cusp of an epoch-making transition, from being passive observers of Nature to being active choreographers of Nature.

the bridge of experience

In daylight her death had taken on a reality. It lived in the house with them, in the dust on the floors, the blankness of the ceilings, the soft, unanswered noises of his movement past her room. After

Having whistled his way well into the recapitulation, he turned and headed toward the bus station.

Baptism did replace circumcision as a Gentile sign of entrance into the Church, as a matter of fact. Moreover, it is a necessary act for believing Jews in addition to circumcision (Acts 21:21, 1 Cor. 7:18). But, it doesn't exactly replace circumcision for Jews, especially in that transitional era.

The children's happy cries rise and fall in the evening light as imperfect and irrevocable as the past, and he stands in the yard of his father's house, waiting, poised motionless on the frontier of the future, until it is too dark to see.