Quotes About Transition

The butterfly does not look back upon its caterpillar self, either fondly or wistfully; it simply flies on.

Mortals don't understand life is not a book you close only after you read the last page. There is no last page in the Book of Life, for the last one is always the first page of another story.

But Felix was no longer Felix. He was a vampire motherfucker.

Gus wasn't ready to drink the Kool-Aid yet, but he was ready to commit to the final leg of this journey.

Los mortales no entienden que la vida no es un libro que cierras solo cuando has leído la última página. No existe tal cosa en el Libro de la Vida, ya que la última página siempre es la misma de la historia siguiente.

Sólo se tiene un futuro cuando no se tiene un presente". La

El fin no es más que el principio." Hasta

I was far away from where China was changing and was constantly reminded that more changes were around the corner.

How do you know when it's over? Maybe when you feel more in love with your memories than with the person standing in front of you.

I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air

There's no longer a need for the Communist Party USA because the Democratic Party has adopted all our platforms.

My family moved a lot as a kid. We started in Colorado, where I lived for five years. We moved to Chicago for two years, to San Francisco for one year, Connecticut for seven, Oregon for a couple years, and then I went to school. So I was always moving, I'm still always moving.

Revolution- a principle stepping over vast distances of time.

The real art of conducting consists in transitions.

Tradition is laziness.

The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief

The ideas of the past, although half destroyed, being still very powerful, and the ideas which are to replace them being still in process of formation, the modern age represents a period of transition and anarchy.

Certainly it is possible that the advent to power of the masses marks one of the last stages of Western civilisation, a complete return to those periods of confused anarchy which seem always destined to precede the birth of every new society.

Believers always break the statues of their former gods with every symptom of fury.

Even revolutions can only avail when the belief has almost entirely lost its sway over men's minds. In that case revolutions serve to finally sweep away what had already been almost cast aside, though the force of habit prevented its complete abandonment. The beginning of a revolution is in reality the end of a belief.

Only four years ago they had presumably been carefree, single girls laughing in a disco and now, as if hardened by some battle, they were assertive, humourless creatures he would not care to live with.

nothing now exists that is so valuable as whatever theoretically might replace it.

Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

Like any pendulum worth its weight, received opinion finds it difficult to swing from one extreme position and settle directly in the middle, without first hurtling all the way to the opposite extreme.