Quotes About Transition

We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.

I no longer have it (desire to play).

Felicity is a continual progress of the desire from one object to another, the attaining of the former being still but the way to the latter.

I gave everything I had to basketball. The passion is still there but the desire to play is not. It was a great ride.

When desire dies, fear is born.

Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure.

The world had seen so many Ages: the Age of Enlightenment; of Reformation; of Reason. Now, at last, the Age of Desire. And after this, an end to Ages; an end, perhaps, to everything.

I lived in a brilliantly lit haze, shifting and flickering according to my changing desires. Of course, that is only a description of being young.

Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires.

Heart's-ease is a flower which blooms from the grave of desire.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

There is nothing constant in the universe. All ebb and flow, and every shape that's born, bears in its womb the seeds of change.

If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

It's destiny that pushed me towards showbiz. I wanted to start off as a technician, but out of compulsion, I became an actor.

Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.

As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.

To step toward your destiny, you may have to step away from your security.

The irrevocable Hand That opes the year's fair gate, doth ope and shut The portals of our earthly destinies; We walk through blindfold, and the noiseless doors Close after us, for ever.

People that live on the edge of two millenniums are people of a special destiny

Life is a dream. It moves from cause to cause, effect to effect, one point to another, one state of existence to another.

I have not often seen much dignity in the process by which we die.

My voice had a long, nonstop career. It deserves to be put to bed with quiet and dignity, not yanked out every once in a while to see if it can still do what it used to do. It can't.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

One can with dignity be wife and widow but once.