Quotes About Transition

Feather to fire,fire to blood Blood to bone,bone to marrow Marrow to ashes,ashes to snow

Grief is not productive. It simply represents an inefficiency in accepting change of status.

Winter broke off, finally, a long ash crumbling at the end of a cigarette, burned out, weak and emptied.

That was such a wonderful time, even in its strangeness and sadness-and life isn't the same now. It's wonderful, but it isn't the same.

Maybe it was always simple: Loss surrounds us. Who would deny it? We ourselves are loss, are lost.

I entered the empty room. I sat on the floor and drew pictures all day. One day I held a picture against the bare wall: it was a window. Climbing through, I stood in a sloping field at dusk. As I began walking, night settled. Far ahead in the valley, I saw the lights of the village, and always at my back, I felt the white room swallowing what was passed. from "The Room," Selected and New Poems. (Wesleyan University Press, 1988)

All through autumn we hear a double voice: one says everything is ripe; the other says everything is dying. The paradox is exquisite. We feel what the Japanese call "aware"--an almost untranslatable word meaning something like "beauty tinged with sadness.

Gretta Mulrooney

It isn't so much that hard times are coming; the change observed is mostly soft times going.

Hello, I must be going, I cannot stay, I came to say, I must be going. I'm glad I came, but just the same, I must be going.

A year ago I came here without a nickle in my pocket, now, I've got a nickle in my pocket.

We left New York drunk and early on the morning of February second. After fifteen days on the water and six on the boat we finally arrived on the shores of Africa.

Die in the West and you're halfway to Heaven.

Restlessness is the number one enemy of people who have just quit smoking.

Breaking away from old psychological memes requires a Herculean effort in many cases. In essence, we are outgrowing a worldview while maintaining a relation-ship of sorts. Transcending an ideology can feel like going through a divorce and having to stay friends because of the kids.

but death can't be the final word, can it? I mean, look at this fire. The wood that we threw on it has been decimated, or so it seems, but in reality, the wood has been transformed into gasses and ashes. I think about that, you know, about how nothing is ever destroyed, but only changes form.

Stop hoping for the weather to change, this is where you chose to live, either accept it or move.

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U svakom slu?aju, on je bio tog uverenja da ništa nije zauvek i definitivno završeno.

the attacking players would need to become the best defenders; and the defenders would have to become the first line of attack, moving the ball forward from the back.

that coronation of the team's achievements paradoxically heralded the beginning of the end for Rijkaard's Barcelona, as the first signs of indiscipline became apparent.

Abidal explains that before he arrived at Barcelona, every time he was called into action on the pitch, as a defender he'd been taught to focus on winning the ball. As soon as he arrived at Barcelona, he was taught to think one step ahead about what he could do with it once he'd got hold of it.

La vida es esa línea de luz suspendida entre la nada y la nada, saltamos de la oscuridad a la oscuridad...

Estás en un momento bisagra de tu vida. Sé cuidadosa con qué puertas abres. Nunca sabes lo que puedes hallar al otro lado.»