Quotes About Transition

It was like my whole life suddenly went from black and white to glorious Technicolor

Ya no se trataba de volver de un viaje concluido al lugar de partida, tenía la sensación de que no volvería nunca a ser quien había sido.

The state of emergency is also always the state of emergence

Time is not a single train, moving in one direction at a constant speed. Every so often it meets another train coming in the opposite direction, from the past, and for a short while that past is with us, by our side, in our present.

Solo que todo depende de una gracia de aspiración al conocimiento del misterio, de nuestra paciencia, persistencia y energía suficiente para aceptar el sufrimiento de la transición a una vida nueva.

He changed sunset into sunrise.

And for her, now, replaced by the plain language of the dogs, who in a few syllables have everything to say.

There were three terrible ages of childhood -- zero to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

For Russia, the early 1900s and the 1990s represent more than just the century's bookends. They also are twin periods of transition in Russian history. Both decades were marked by defeat in war, imperial and economic collapse, and attempts at dramatic reform. Both were infused with nostalgia for a past.

If you're behind the curve, you're on the crest of a wave.

Many years I lived in the highlands, gazing at the lowlands. Then I decided to go down. Now, I look up at the highlands.

And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that.

All I know is that now my little bird has nothing, except what appears to be a comfortable spot to begin his inevitable return to unconstrained atoms, some of which may float to the sky, or in my window.

It may be true that one cannot stop progress, but the form of progress has always been contestable and open to variations.

The clavadista checks the tower On the cliffs from which he dives Turning two thirds of the way down To mark the point Where all the somersaults are over And he must go in feet first or else break

The whole world, if you wait long enough Is full of falling.

She knew that a minute before sunrise, when the sky began to lighten, showing dark, early clouds, there was often a pause when nothing moved, not even time, and she was always happy to be up and in that moment; sometimes she tried to stand perfectly still, to not move with time not moving, and it seemed that if she were not careful she might slip out of this world and into another…She hoped that when her time came, it would be close to morning, and she could wait for the still moment.

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

Times do keep changing - thank God.

Inhale autumn, long for spring

From 'A Bowl Fallen From the Roof' Be quiet now and wait. It may be that the ocean one, the one we desire so to move into and become, desires us out here on land a little longer, going our sundry ways to the shore. -Rumi

I was changing. Slowly, if you like, but what matter? To change is the great thing.

Incompatibility became established between them like a new season of the year.