Quotes About Transition

I'm no prophet. My job is making windows where there were once walls.

Life begins at fifty, that's true, inasmuch as it ends at forty.

Este o senza?ie stranie: s? sim?i cum via?a ?i se schimb? total; e suficient s? stai pe loc, s? nu faci nimic, s? percepi senza?ia de schimbare.

la vie se caractérise par de longues plages d'ennui confus, elle est le plus souvent singulièrement morne; puis tout à coup une bifurcation apparaît, et cette bifurcation s'avère definitive.

la adolescencia no sólo es una etapa importante de la vida, sino que es la única etapa en la que se puede hablar de vida en el verdadero sentido del término.

Visas pasules kaps?t?s nesen mirušie cilv?ki savos z?rkos turpin?ja netrauc?ti sadal?ties un pamaz?m p?rv?rsties par ?inde?iem.

pero no es el hecho de haber sido feliz en un lugar lo que hace dolorosa la perspectiva de abandonarlo, es simplemente el hecho de abandonarlo, de dejar atrás una parte de tu vida, por muy tediosa o incluso desagradable que haya podido ser, de ver que se hunde en la nada; en otras palabras, es el hecho de envejecer.

Su padre se levantó, fue al baño y al volver se puso el abrigo. Durante los dos o tres minutos que duró la operación, Jed tuvo la sensación fugaz, alternativa, de que acababan de iniciar una nueva etapa en sus relaciones o, por el contrario, que no volverían a verse. Como su padre se plantaba finalmente delante de él, en una actitud de espera, dijo: -Voy a llamarte un taxi.

I wondered what could interest me, now that I was finished with love.

Het nieuwe ontstaat nooit eenvoudigweg door interpolatie van het oude.

She just turned fifteen.

Ce n'était plus Nirvana, mais Radiohead.

La vida empieza a los cincuenta años, es cierto; con la salvedad de que termina a los cuarenta.

Je vois le soir tomber et le monde mourir.

Já na manhã seguinte (...) entendi que uma parte de minha vida acabava de terminar, e era provavelmente a melhor.

It wasn't easy to cram your whole life into thirty kilos of luggage.

When I was campaigning, I told the people if nothing happens under my mandate it will still be a positive thing because my mandate will be used as a rupture between the past and the future.

Modern life is very difficult for people who are unprepared. But this new environment will eventually facilitate more realistic relationships between people.

I looked at my reflection in the mirror. My cycle had begun. I was now a woman. I was ready to do God's work.

I was thinking that maybe when everything around you changed all the time, it was nice to know that something would always be the same.

There's no such thing as lost; there's just adjusting your perspective" -Scott

while you try to reconcile the place before you with the place in your memory,

In times past there were rituals of passage that conducted a boy into manhood, where other men passed along the wisdom and responsibilities that needed to be shared. But today we have no rituals. We are not conducted into manhood; we simply find ourselves there. Kent Nerburn, Letters to My Son

away is hard to go, but no one asked me to stay