Quotes About Transition

Wisconsin was covered several inches deep in snow -- very beautiful, with light ice-floes on the lakes and rivers, and the bare trees and tall grasses like brown feathers against the snow. As the sun set it was reflected in the ice-covered lakes and the light snow -- but all the same I'm glad that most of my [lecture] tour has been in summer and autumn weather. As soon as winter comes there is an extraordinary effect of desolation in these miles upon miles of uninhabited prairies and hills.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

Valleys of Death" — those points in the company's growth where you're bigger, but not quite big enough to have the next level of talent and systems needed to scale the venture.

There was an old Qeng Ho saying, "You know you've stayed too long when you start using the locals' calendar.

Politics is good; when it works properly, disagreements get solved without people beating each other up. But when a regime knows its days are numbered, there's always the chance it may use its position to change the rules and make the debate it is losing irrelevant.

It is an edged cliché that the world is most pleasant in the years of a Waning Sun. It is true that the weather is not so driven, that everywhere there is a sense of slowing down, and most places experience a few years where the summers do not burn and the winters are not yet overly fierce. It is the classic time of romance. It's a time that seductively beckons higher creatures to relax, postpone. It's the last chance to prepare for the end of the world.

quinceañera. Case closed." Carmen and Jamie exchanged

Change, like healing, takes time.

But I will find new habits, new thoughts, new rules. I will become something else.

It is an odd thing about the guests in a big hotel. Not a single one goes out through the revolving door the same as when he came in.

The revolving door turns and turns and turns.

Many men who had spent their working lives in the East were terrified of going home to England and living on a pension. Gone were the spacious home, the servants, the ponies, the cars, and the memberships in every club. But

And that was is. Life sometimes flips on you like that. One minute you're looking at your reflection in the water, not entirely sure you like what you see, and the next minute you are upside down, submerged in a world where even familiar things look new.

Why does so much of life have to be about letting go?

It is funny what a year can do.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Forty is the old age of youth while fifty is the youth of old age.

Además, el tiempo se encarga de acabar con las ridiculeces. Es más, se encarga de acabar con todo.

There are plenty of Marxist-Leninist textbooks about taking power; but there are none about giving it up.

Poppe, once a leading figure at a scientific research institute, found a job as a swimming pool attendant

There was nothing more to leave behind. In a way, I had walked the roji , the Zen term for "dewy path," which represents the transition from the outside burning world of dust and passions to the contemplative spiritual world of a Japanese teahouse.

I always knew that grief was something I could smell. But I didn't know that it's not actually a noun but a verb. That it moves.

To acknowledge death is to acknowledge that we must take another shape.

The way memory gets up after someone has died and starts walking.