Quotes About Transition

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

You imagined yourself into your present state. If you don't like it, you must imagine yourself out of it and into another. It is all a matter of movement.

Spiritual growth is the gradual, I would say, transition from a God of tradition to a God of experience.

Por lo tanto, si aceptas al Dios de Israel, comienzas a abandonar Egipto. Este es el inicio del Éxodo. Pero al hombre le resulta difícil mantener el presente; siempre está moviéndose hacia aquí o hacia allá. Parece

Before us go the results of all that seemingly is behind. Not gone is the last moment—but oncoming.

I am drowning: what use would be looking back to the shore from which I fell?

we shall quickly find ourselves about as important to the algorithms as animals currently are to us.

When you are born in one century and find yourself walking around in another there's a certain infirmity to your footing. May we all be so lucky to live long enough to see our time turn to fable.

Beside the river there are two things you never forget, that the moment you look at a river that moment has already passed, and that everything is on its way somewhere else.

All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the bad has lasted so long, the good is close at hand. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote

Dad moved in with the baffled deepsea shyness of a character just arriving in a story already underway.

And in just this way the days after my father's death became weeks became months in the familiar ceaseless cruelty of time, carrying us ever forward even when we sit still. Time does not pass, pain grows." (p.223)

Let's not see each other until we are in the next place.

Partire e fermarsi sono le due cose più difficili

All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the

It happened so fast - so abruptly. An innocence I'd clung to was lost in that instant.

Maybe I don't want it to pass because that would mean an acceptance that life is like this: just a gradual process of loss.

Thursday is perhaps the worst day of the week. It's nothing in itself; it just reminds you that the week has been going on too long.

Nobody tells you, when you're young, what it will be like." "What is it like?" "You become like a ghost in your own life.

Bit by bit, we become people we don't want to be,

You're supposed to gain things as you grow older in return for the things that you lose. But what had she gained? Dignity? She hadn't got that. Peace? No. Wisdom? It seemed unlikely. And what had she lost? Beauty, youth, innocence, possibility. Your past grows longer and your future shrinks. And you lose your parents and your children – often at the same time so that you go from being daughter and mother to being neither. What are you then?

It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage than a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.

Even the most difficult things which you think you'll never get over you do get over, and in a trice you find they're behind you and you have to go on. New things await you.

La cosa, si disse, sarebbe passata perché nella vita le cose passano sempre, come in un fiume. Anche quelle difficili che ti sembra impossibile superare, le superi, e in un attimo te le trovi alle spalle. Devi andare avanti. Ti aspettano cose nuove.