Quotes About Transition

Getting fired is nature's way to telling you that you had the wrong job in the first place.

From the streets to stardom.

Mein gutes altes kroatisches Herz beschleunigte von Walzer zu Death Metal .

My mother named me Tomislav, and my father was a Bokši?. After my first week in the US, I'd become Tom Boksic. Which then led to Toxic.

I want to walk away from my bones and set them down on a counter like my keys after work. Let my skin sink into the armchair and lose its shape. Lose its form. Collapse into a sigh.

New Year's eve is like every other night; there is no pause in the march of the universe, no breathless moment of silence among created things that the passage of another twelve months may be noted; and yet no man has quite the same thoughts this evening that come with the coming of darkness on other nights.

Somewhere on earth there is a door reserved for each soul, and one day each of us will walk through that door never to return to this life again. Where that door is and when we will walk through it are unknowns we must live with and prepare for. Upon death, all of this -- this whole world and all of its charms and occupations -- will become as if it were all a dream.

Hz Ali, "insalar uykudad?r, öldüklerinde uyan?rlar" buyurmu?tur.

and I was afraid because I knew I had outgrown my past before I could see a path to my future.

If you never left anything or anyone there would be no room for the new. Naturally, to move on is an infidelity -- to others, to the past, to old notions of oneself. Perhaps every day should contain at least one essential infidelity or necessary betrayal. It would be an optimistic, hopeful act, guaranteeing belief in the future -- a declaration that things can be not only different but better.

I know I was a great friend to Tiger Woods. But when you have a relationship that's involves business and friendship - and the business part comes to an end - things always get a little blurry.

My new appointment was supposed to be

The way to the light is out of the darkness

Make no mistake, adolescence is a war. No one gets out unscathed.

history informs us that the passage of dethroned monarchs is short from prison to the grave."18

Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature.

Remember, nothing is forever. The darkness passes. The illness subsides.

Listen. You know what it's like when you're in a room with the light on and then suddenly the light goes out? I'll show you. It's like this." He turns out the light. BLACKOUT

I think I'll be moving on tomorrow," she said. "What for? Got anything better to do?" She shook her head. "No. But this isn't my bag. You know that. These cars don't make any noise." "Someday all cars won't make noise," he said.

In the years immediately following the end of the Great War, approximately fifty thousand one-room schools were replaced with these "fine upstanding structures—schools that in every way compare[d] with big-city institutions." By 1922, there were roughly "12,000 of this new type of school in the United States." Indiana alone had more than one thousand; Ohio, Iowa, and Minnesota more than nine hundred, four hundred, and three hundred, respectively.6

I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. Scout

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell.

The longest day must have its close — the gloomiest night will wear on to a morning. An eternal, inexorable lapse of moments is ever hurrying the day of the evil to an eternal night, and the night of the just to an eternal day.

It was like that hush of spirit which we feel amid the bright, mild woods of autumn, when the bright hectic flush is on the trees, and the last lingering flowers by the brook; and we joy in it all the more, because we know that soon it will all pass away. The