Quotes About Transition

The whole thing had seemed to start out well and then devolve into a disaster almost before he noticed. Not that that's unusual. But

Sometimes endings are just opportunities.

It's so easy to go from love to hate. But from hate back to love, that's the hard part.

Sometimes, when it feels as if life has veered irrevocably off track, the track shifts in ways we never could have imagined.

It was approaching dusk. That time between late afternoon and early evening when most of us are adjusting our lights and clothing, appetites and mindsets, to make the transition from the end of the day to the beginning of the night. A time when both sun and moon can share the sky.

Everything seems fine until you're about 40. Then something is definitely beginning to go wrong. And you look in the mirror with your old habit of thinking, 'While I accept that everyone grows old and dies, it's a funny thing, but I'm an exception to that rule.'

Sometimes I feel that life is passing me by, not slowly either, but with ropes of steam and spark-spattered wheels and a hoarse roar of power or terror. It's passing, yet I'm the one who's doing all the moving.

Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.

How easily, without noticing, a man finds himself parallel to the life he meant to have, then arrives, years later, to find the band gone, flowers dead, love past.

Follow Descartes! Do not give up the religion of your youth until you get a better one.

Complex biospheres like the Earth's could be rare because of some bottleneck, some key stage in evolution, that is hard to transit. Perhaps it is the transition to multicellular life. (The fact that simple life on Earth seems to have emerged quite quickly, whereas even the most basic multicellular organisms took nearly three billion years, suggests that there may be severe barriers to the emergence of any complex life.)

An adaptive change that is beneficial to the organization as a whole may clearly and tangibly hurt some of those who had benefited from the world being left behind.

It was expected, however, that [Erasmus] should make some reply and give some definition. But instead, by availing himself of a rhetorical transition, he drags us who knew nothing of rhetoric away with him, as if the matter at issue here were of no moment, but simply a lot of quibbling, and dashes bravely out of the crowded court, crowned with ivy and laurel.

Where, then, is our orator running off to, who was going to speak about a palm, but talks of nothing but a gourd? "It started as a wine jar, why does it end as a water jug?

I'm like a ripe stool, and the world's like a gigantic anus, and so we're about to let go of each other.

It is historically and biologically true that there can be no birth and growth without birth and growing pains. Whenever there is the emergence of the new we confront the recalcitrance of the old. So the tensions which we witness in the world today are indicative of the fact that a new world order is being born and an old order is passing away.

Like sexual intercourse, death needs foreplay.

As you grow older, you change.

So, as you may be sensing, I wasn't quite cooked.

As you are thinking about the past, the past you are thinking about the future.

Neolithicization is the evolutionary cessation from a physiological perspective.

Leaving the relative and predictable comfort of prison can be traumatic. Living free means not holding on to anything, even your most cherished beliefs and ideals.

move on but, as Aunt Dolly had pointed out to him on many occasions

get yourself a good bed and a good pair of shoes, because if you ain't in one, you are in the other.