Quotes About Transition

The only baggage they brought with them was psychological.

Besides, you're taking the lead on this investigation, whatever it turns out to be." "I am? Why?" "Because I'm retiring in a few weeks. My job until then is to sit on my ass, push paper, and offer you pearls of wisdom," he said. "And I don't want to get myself killed like all the soon-to-retire cops in the movies just to add some tragic depth to your character. I've done enough for you already.

Eve looked at Greta and wondered if she was seeing her future, moving halfway across the country and spending her days cleaning up after death. Then again, wasn't that what she was doing now, only without the soap and sponge?

People go to a hospital to get fixed up and then return home. But people generally go to a nursing home fully expecting to get worse and die

The nature of things dictates that we must leave those dear to us. Everything born contains its own cessation

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

I was suffering from culture shock before the phrase was coined

I knew if I sat there another minute, I'd never be able to get beyond everything that was going to happen from that day on. My life would disappear inside his. So I got up.

Yes, I don't believe that the inter-Korean relationship has, quote, 'deteriorated' since I assumed office. Rather I believe that the relationship between the two Koreas is entering into a new phase - a time of transition. And so I think that the North Koreans are trying to see what they can build with this, with my new administration.

I guess I have realized that we don't live forever, and that the only time to do what we really want to do is now. This is the thing about a parent's death—especially the second parent's death— suddenly there is no other person standing between you and the great beyond, that darkness, the grave. I know I sound morbid, but it has been such an illuminating insight for me that I have to share it with you. Listen: the time is now. We are the next in line.

I haven't changed. Something's happened to me, that's all.

For death is but a passing phase of Life; A change of dress, a disrobing; A birth into the unborn again; A commencing where we ended; A starting where we stopped to rest; A crossroad of Eternity; A giving up of something, to possess all things. The end of the unreal, the beginning of the real.

When life's summer grows to winter And its roses fade and fall; When in vain we try to hinder Death's commissioned right to all; When on white lips there's a last kiss And we see her face no more, Then it is to know what love is, Waiting on a foreign shore.

Nature does not make leaps.

Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.

Change is always a sorry thing

Birthing takes nine months, and dying takes you all the rest of your life.

TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30

A small part of the South not yet gone with the wind.

Your initial opinion on just about anything may change over time.

Nobody wants to fall into a safety net, because it means the structure in which they've been living is in a state of collapse and they have no choice but to tumble downwards. However, it beats the alternative.

and what might seem to be a series of unfortunate events may in fact be the first steps of a journey.

Tu opinión inicial acerca de casi cualquier cosa puede cambiar con el paso del tiempo.

It is unwise to make something permanent when the whole world is shifting.