Quotes About Transition

C'è un momento in cui si compie un piccolo passo, pensò, si devia di un millimetro dalla solita via, a quel punto si è costretti a posare anche un secondo piede e d'un tratto si finisce si un percorso sconosciuto.

What do people see in me on the first impression? Can they still see what I was until not long ago? Is there any imprint left from the love I knew? A rebirth mark?

What is 'healthy' for one dominant ego-image at a particular stage of life may be decidedly unhealthy for the nascent ego-image of the next stage of life.

When the dark is at rest, the light begins to move.

Research is an organized method of finding out what you are going to do when you can't keep on doing what you are doing now.

If he had gone to the old school, he was by no means old-school.

Officers came and went and were never a part of daily life.

ingenue whose career was winding down

Autumn Begins Autumn begins unnoticed. Nights slowly lengthen, and little by little, clear winds turn colder and colder, summer's blaze giving way. My thatch hut grows still. At the bottom stair, in bunchgrass, lit dew shimmers. We

In my old age, I'll be in L.A.

I used to know where I was going but as I get older I just seem to arrive there!

It's seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

It is seldom that liberty of any kind, is lost all at once.

Liberty of any kind is never lost all at once.

The time had come, King said, to "move from protest to reconciliation.

It wasn't here or there that had ever been scary. It was the middle ground, that long desolate space between, that scared the hell out of me.

But like it or not, change happens and, like most things in life, doesn't really happen /to us/ - it just happens.

Death ends a life, but not our relationship, our love, or our hope.

While death may look like a loss to the living, the last hours of a dying person may very well be filled with fullness rather than emptiness.

Ultimately, meaning comes through finding a way to sustain your love for the person after their death while you're moving forward with your life. That

Your pain will not always be like this," I told her. "It will change." This is a message that the grieving need to hear, and in the moment of saying it, I often observe a shift. The person looks up at me and says, "It will?" And he or she suddenly becomes lighter.

Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.

It's not over when a man lays down his gun. The question remains as to which fellow will pick up the weapon next. That's politics.

replaced by a detail posted on a Web page, which may be more accurate but is probably less true. Gone is the friend you knew from home. Gone is the sled and the lake and the winter. Gone are the stories that existed in the gap between imagining and knowing and, with them, the distance that turned the particular into the universal and the mundane into the romantic.