Quotes About Transition

In the four years I had spent in Southeast Asia, I had changed, and so had the people back home. And I could not communicate effectively about these differences in perception.

but sometimes you can go along, years even, and not feel like you're growing up at all, and then there's times when you age a ton, like, in a couple 'a seconds, you know?

setting off," when the world both contracts and expands at the same time.

Missiologist Dr. Stuart Murray identified seven transitions that mark a shift from Christendom to a post-Christendom culture that the church has to come to terms with: from the center to the margins, from majority to minority, from settlers to sojourners, from privilege to plurality, from control to witness, from maintenance to mission, and from institution to movement.

Neil S. Plakcy

Disaffection, once begun, acquires a momentum of its own

Sudden money is going from zero to two hundred dollars a week. The rest doesn't count.

OSCAR. Don't you know what's happening to the old gang? It's breaking up. Everyone's getting divorced....I swear, we used to have better games when we couldn't get out at night.

As time passes in Heaven, the stars do not change places, not till the day when Zig changes the complete backdrop. I tell my students this is a metaphor for life; we go along thinking nothing will be different, till the day everything suddenly changes at once.

Digo a meus alunos que isto é uma metáfora para a vida: seguimos pensando que nada será diferente, até o dia em que tudo muda repentinamente de uma vez.

I used to walk like a giant on the land. Now I feel like a leaf floating in a stream

Out of the blue and into the black

I'd rather keep changing and lose people along the way. If that's the price, I'll pay it.

I think we believed that what we'd achieved acamically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

Charlie and I both felt very adult that last year of college, very experienced: I think we believed that what we'd achieved academically was akin to growing up, rather than something we might have done in place of it.

Amina knew she was a different person in Bangla than she was English; she noticed the change every time she switched languages on the phone. She was older in English, and also less fastidious; she was the parent to her parents.

Children always grow faster than their parents' image of them.

We, the rescued,Beg you:Show us your sun, but gradually.Lead us from star to star, step by step.Be gentle when you teach us to live again.

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

A philosopher once noted that something is odd if a person is not liberal when he is young and conservative when he is old.

And nothing would ever happen if we always stayed the same ["The Sweetness"].

don't want to come back as a seasonal interpreter," Anna said finally. Jenny looked crestfallen. "I don't blame you for that," Steve said. "Let me know when you'd like your last day to be and I'll get to work on the paperwork." "No, I'm staying," Anna said. "I want to come back in law enforcement.

Soon she was going to have to relinquish her self-image as a hermit.

It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same, only we shan't be in it. I dare say it will get along all right without us.