Quotes About Transition

Les saisons s'enchaînaient façon paquets de bonbons : faciles à gober et colorés.

Changer, c'est toujours perdre un bloc de soi. On le sent qui se détache, après un temps d'adaptation. C'est un deuil et un soulagement en même temps.

The time for hope is gone, and come for fear.

It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

Life is a great sunrise. I do not see why death should not be an even greater one.

These last eight years…

KGB, collapsed. Of course it was incredibly difficult to go through this. After all, most of my life had been devoted to work in the agencies. But I had made my choice.

When I came home, I was asked to put my pictures in a photo exhibit at the Cinematography College ... my pictures won first prize. I began to ask myself what I was doing, and why. A few months after the exhibit, I dropped out of college, left my wife and began to write this book.

It is said that the present is pregnant with the future.

That's the lesson of the dogs, that it's important to both live in the moment and then go on to the next wonderful thing.

Humans are so much more complex than dogs, with such a broad range of feelings—though there were many times I missed the Yard, for the most part I was now living a far richer life, even though I often didn't know what was going on.

Sometimes that happens to us, way before we're ready, a moment that changes everything. Life will be going along, like normal, and then one day without warning you find out that nothing will ever be the same.

The way he was speaking to me reminded me of the first time Senora called me Toby. I instantly understood what was happening—just as the men had pulled my first family from the culvert, this man had taken me from the grass. And now my life would be what he decided it would be.

Saturday the weather couldn't decide if it was ready to fully entertain winter or if we were still stuck in the fall." "...winter showed up in an angry, punishing fury...

Empezaba a pensar que cada vez que me parecía que entendía lo que era la vida, esta cambiaba.

Then something incredible happened. The boy picked me up and carried me right into the house! I'd never even imagined that might be possible. Did it mean that I wouldn't be living in a wire cage with a concrete floor? That I could stay where the people stayed? I was going to like it here just fine.

A supervisor comes in and is gone in five weeks. Another one comes in. He likewise knows nothing about this job and has no intention to learn much about it, as he too will move on any day.

The mercury sank in the mouth of the dying day.

I am the son of the first fish who climbed ashore but the news has not yet reached my bowels.

By the time a man notices that he is no longer young, his youth has long since left him.

One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.

The Wheel Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all; And after that there's nothing good Because the spring-time has not come -- Nor know what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.

it's a long lane that has no turning.

as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower