Quotes About Transition

School is school- she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

It seems foolish to play games of better and worse. It's simply a matter of is and is no longer.

We think that time is the only thing that passes, but it also changes our relationship to places.

flux, kb. perubahan yang terus-menerus. Situasi alami. Suasana hati kita berubah. Kehidupan kita berubah. Perasaan kita terhadap satu sama lain berubah. Perilaku kita berubah. Lagunya berubah. Udaranya berubah. Temperatur air pancuran berubah. Terimalah. Kita harus menerimanya.

And this is what happened. We both took it as an opportunity to peel the wallpaper from our lives. The only thing I kept out were the photographs of my friends and family, placed on a wall with photographs of your friends and (less so) family on the other end, as if they were meeting for the first time, still too shy or wary to mingle.

Como si cuando muriera alguien muy cercano a nosotros intercambiásemos los lugares. Y cuando lo superáramos, en realidad, estuviéramos viviendo su vida pero al revés: desde la muerte a la vida; desde la enfermedad a la salud

who was it who promised that if you got to a certain point you would no longer be?

Wierz?, ?e du?e zmiany w ?yciu przychodz? niezauwa?one; nie spodziewamy si? ich nawet na chwil? przed.

Houve uma época em que éramos como vocês, só que nosso mundo não era como o seu. Vocês não fazem ideia do quanto chegaram perto da morte. Uma geração ou duas antes, e vocês talvez estivessem aqui conosco.

One last song. One last turn. One last street. No matter how hard you try to keep hold of a day, its going to leave you

It is my father who looks diminished now. As if when someone close to us dies, we momentarily trade places with them, in the moment right before. And as we get over it, we're really living their life in reverse, from death to life, from sickness to health.

We all have days that alter the course of our lives. Not each and every day, maybe. But a lot of them. Most of them.

is hard to stop seeing your parents as parents and to start seeing them as human beings. It's a two-sided transition, and very few people manage it gracefully.

Do you know what I learned? I learned that leaving is bullshit. Because you always take yourself wherever you go.

she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next -A

So they stood upon the shores of Faith and felt the old dogmas and certainties ebbing away rapidly under their feet and between their toes, sapping the foundations upon which they stood, a sensation both agreeably stilmulating and sightly unnerving

Pope John Paul I had died and been succeeded by John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope for four hundred and fifty years: a Pole, a poet, a philosopher, a linguist, an athlete, a man of destiny, dramatically chosen, instantly popular - but theologically conservative. A changing Church acclaims a Pope who evidently thinks that change has gone far enough. What will happen now? All bets are void, the future is uncertain, but it will be interesting to watch. Reader, farewell!

These so-called bleak times are necessary to go through in order to get to a much, much better place.

about cinema) It's like opening a door and go into a new world.

When I was young, I did a lot of things with pine. But then, I started falling in love with Douglas fir, vertical-grain Douglas fir.

As one woman noted, "The best way to get over one man is to get under another."24

People change in some ways as they grow; in other ways they don't.

He is, he thinks, almost ready to leave this place behind forever. Almost eager, in fact. Almost.

The world, for Achilles, reassembled itself around a new centre.