Quotes About Transition

Why did death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater than we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.

And here's Moses Kiptanui - the 19 year old Kenyan, who turned 20 a few weeks ago.

In my first three years as CEO, we wound up changing out about half of my staff members, replacing them with leaders who bought in strongly to One Honeywell.

Perhaps a more practical way of stressing the same truth would be to frame the growth of knowledge (all knowledge, not only scientific) as a continual transition from problems to better problems, rather than from problems to solutions or from theories to better theories. This

What life has become, as Andreas said. And the only answer I have to that—the only one I've ever had—is what life could be. I have to admit: I'm no longer holding my breath.

Somewhere along the way the hopes of something better had become the dread of something worse. News

Yes, but if I were to look down there what would I see?" "Don't think about it like that," Greta said. "That's not the only thing that makes you Lili.

The only reason there's such a thing as a morning in the first place is to keep night and afternoon from bumping into each other. -Kheldar

Humanity is on the march, earth itself is left behind.

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Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.

Cela fini toujours ainsi, par les souvenirs. On pourrait croire que tout va s'arranger.

Depuis quand était-ce ainsi? Il est difficile de dater le début d'un déclin d'amour. C'est progressif, insidieux, l'aisance surnoise des agonies.

De qué forma tan paulatina e insidiosa se van acomodando solapadamente las agonías.

Dans son lit, il sut qu'il ne serait pas capable de s'endormir : comment aller vers le rêve quand on vient de le quitter ?

Quand la cinquantaine arrive, on est trop vieux pour être jeune. Mais on est encore un peu jeune pour être vieux.

Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it.

My first career was as a coach and a teacher.

He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.

Let others hail the rising sun:I bow to that whose course is run.

This mood makes itself felt everywhere, politically, socially, and philosophically. We are living in what the Greeks called the ????óÏ' (Kairos) – the right time – for a "metamorphosis of the gods," i.e. of the fundamental principles and symbols.

History, in Renaissance Europe of the fifteenth to sixteenth centuries, was not a story of progress.

yet in a Short time they become disgusted with our manner of life, and the care and pains that are necessary to support it

society. The orbital technology enabling this observation is itself one of the strange and striking aspects of the transition now gripping Earth. If up to now the defining characteristic of Earth has been planetary-scale life, then what about these planetary-scale lights? Might this spreading, luminous net be part of a new defining characteristic? Even