Quotes About Transition

Et sie minnuu tunne? Mie olen Rokan Antti. Pienmaanviljelijä Kannakselt. Nykyään Tikkakosken mannekiini.

Shake it 'til the moon becomes the sun.

The end of any path, is the beginning of the next path.

I don't know at what point you stop hurting and start healing

That was the trouble with moving houses; no matter how carefully you packed the books, they never ended up on the new shelves in quite the right place.

You have to think ahead, if you want to live, look around to see what you have, what to use to begin your new life.

It wasn't that easy to leave your established home, the place made sacred by the graves of your parents, and move on to who knew where.

And here, like everything else, life changed from a whole number into a fraction with a numerator and a denominator, and it became difficult to figure out what was above the line and what was below it

And if you don't like it here, you can go somewhere else, where it's better, no road is closed to you.

The world is going to crack in half: that's what is happening! And it will break across us, the old people...we don't belong here or there. Lord have mercy!

It's interesting when you've been a partner with someone for so long. So now to sing solo and starting all over again I am learning that I am more bodacious than I thought. I don't know where it's coming from but I am glad.

They know the autumn's the peak season for harvesting, and that the crop is eighteen-year-olds.

The end is never worth the beginning.

This has not been a scientist's war; it has been a war in which all have had a part. The scientists, burying their old professional competition in the demand of a common cause, have shared greatly and learned much. It has been exhilarating to work in effective partnership. Now, for many, this appears to be approaching an end. What are the scientists to do next?

E da un certo giorno in avanti, è come al primo canto del gallo; per bujo che sia, non è più notte, se aguzzi lo sguardo vedi baluginare l'alba, il ricordo ha una diversa consistenza.

There's nothing more difficult than saying goodbye to a house where you've suffered.

c'est que je continue à les porter. Je les enlève avant

What is it to inhabit a world? How does one make the world one's own? What is it to lose one's world?

At the Konya bus station

Despair was a thing of the past, discarded like a scarf through the window of a moving car.

Chapter 23 Chapter

And as I went up to him and took his hands, I felt that I had made no mistakes; and although I knew that, in a sense which could never be true of him, I was linked with the past that I had yielded up, inextricably and for ever, I found it not inappropriate that the years of frustration and grief and loss, of work and conflict and painful resurrection, should have led me through their dark and devious ways to this new beginning.

how precious individuals and places become the moment that the possibility of leaving them turns into fact.

To have some real work to do after more than a year of purposeless pottering was like a bracing visit to a cliff-bound coast after lethargic existence on a marshy lowland.