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Quotes About Transition

Thereby, a new set of social relations—that of landlord and serf—replaced the old relations of slavemaster and slave.
~ Walter Rodney
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
~ Walter Scott
It will be just like Duncan Mac-Girdie's mare,' said Evan, 'if your ladyships please, he wanted to use her by degrees to live without meat, and just as he had put her on a straw a day the poor thing died!
~ Walter Scott
That which is neither ill nor well. That which belongs not to Heaven nor to hell, A wreath of the mist, a bubble of the stream, 'Twixt a waking thought and a sleeping dream; A form that men spy With the half-shut eye. In the beams of the setting sun, am I.
~ Walter Scott
I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.
~ Warren Buffett
Many shall be restored that now are fallen and many shall fall that are now in honor.
~ Warren Buffett
an environment becomes fully visible only when it has been superseded by a new environment; thus we are always one step behind in our view of the world. The present is always invisible because it's environmental and saturates the whole field of attention so overwhelmingly; thus everyone is alive in an earlier day.
~ Warren Ellis
The future arrived here a couple of weeks ago and nobody noticed. Because that's how the future always arrives. You don't realize it's here until you bump into it.
~ Warren Ellis
The future sneaks up on us. It leaks in through the small, ordinary things.
~ Warren Ellis
Time was this place didn't make sense and I could live with it. Either it's changed, or I have.
~ Warren Ellis
That's how the future always arrives: you don't realize it's here until you bump into it.
~ Warren Ellis
But, as much as I will miss these lakes and fields of the Now, it's time to go. Time for another great adventure. Because if I stay here, there will surely be no more and I couldn't bear that.
~ Warren Ellis
I am a men's liberationist (or masculist) when men's liberation is defined as equal opportunity and equal responsibility for both sexes. I am a feminist when feminism favors equal opportunities and responsibilities for both sexes. I oppose both movements when either says our sex is THE oppressed sex, therefore, we deserve rights. That's not gender liberation but gender entitlement. Ultimately, I am in favor of neither a women's movement nor a men's movement but a gender transition movement.
~ Warren Farrell
Ideally there should not be a men's movement but a gender transition movement; only the power of the women's movement necessitates the temporary corrective of a men's movement.
~ Warren Farrell
Each experience in your lifewas absolutely necessary in order to have gotten you to the next place, and the next place, up to this very moment.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. — George Bernard Shaw
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Allow your life to unfold naturally. Know that it too is a vessel of perfection. Just as you breathe in and breathe out, there is a time for being ahead and a time for being behind; a time for being in motion and a time for being at rest; a time for being vigorous and a time for being exhausted; a time for being safe and a time for being in danger.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
It seems as if people begin preparing themselves for death from the time they learn there is such a thing.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
Move from wanting to see permanence in your life to realizing that all things change due to the nature of this being an ever-modifying world.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
~ Wayne W. Dyer
I realize something. That wasn't a finish line for me...This is my new starting line.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
Thank you for helping me turn the page.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
My life is over. Behind
~ Wendelin Van Draanen
chaos is a necessary step in the organization of one's universe, then I was well on my way.
~ Wendelin Van Draanen