Quotes About Transition

Todos en algún instante de nuestra vida necesitamos regresar a la caverna.

The reader as a whole reflected, as Bingham intended, New England's long transition from seventeenth-century Calvinism to nineteenth-century evangelical, freewill doctrine, from Puritan theocracy to the Revolutionary era's separation of church and state.

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the bast bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

Shut not your minds to the new because the chains of the past bind you tight, for it is those who cling most desperately to the old who will turn you from the new way and lead you once more in to the paths of the unclean

swung the door shut behind him.

hay gold dusk of late spring

Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

I can love October in September. September doesn't care.

Some lives, conducted with grace, are beautiful arcs bridging this world to eternity.

What has been is no more. Change has come.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

But of course we don't notice the descent until we're rocketing along at high velocity.

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

That's life. Something always happens. We don't live in stasis, frozen in amber.

Indeed, from my earliest years the idea of transformation has been central to my life. Naturally so, I suppose, being the child of diplomats. I changed schools, languages, countries and continents a number of times during my childhood. At each change I had the opportunity to re-create myself, to present a new façade, to bury past errors and misrepresentations.

All of life is an act of letting go but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.

When the final moment came, signalled to him by the dramatic stoppage of her loud, rasping breathing (whereas their son had departed so quietly, like the petals of a flower falling off), he felt like a sheet of ice being rushed along a river.

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump abroad or stand on the platform and watch as it passes.

Je me suis souvenue des soixante ans de mon père. On avait mangé une choucroute à la République. C'était l'âge qu'avaient les parents. Un âge immense et abstrait. Maintenant c'est toi qui l'as. Comment est-ce possible? Une fille fait les quatre cents coups, se trimbale dans la vie juchée et peinturlurée et tout à coup se met à avoir soixante ans.

Les vieux, des gens d'une autre époque mis dans le futur.

If I weren't in a constant state of metamorphosis, I'd have to battle the gloom that comes with endings because I refuse to wind down in some female fit of the vapors.

When you're held by the dead, you begin to feel that you aren't in this world yourself.

Quando si vede un arcobaleno si ha l'impressione di essere tra la primavera e l'estate.»

Una vez que nos abrimos al cambio, la primera acción crea un apetito por más cambio.