Quotes About Transition

Llámanse progresos los preparativos de las catástrofes.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

Happy who in his verse can gently steerFrom grave to light, from pleasant to severe.

After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

After a certain age, any new friends we make in our attempt to replace the ones we've lost are like glass eyes, false teeth and wooden legs.

A man begins every stage of his life as a novice.

That as a human being I'm not necessarily static, but... evolving. That I'm supposed to grow and develop, just like the physical world, the planet, the universe.

She, too, could become someone else. Eventually. Or she'd told herself all these years.

She shrugged, knowing all too well how easy it was to long for a different life, how hard it was to find one's way there.

She pictured herself in a world without him, a world where she had only her own heart and mind to follow. A world open and blank with possibility; terrifying, almost.

You're on a journey whether you want to be or not.

Change brings opportunity.

More Phase Transitions This principle applies just as much to the spread of infectious diseases or magnetic polarity as to forest fires. It is essentially the same process unfolding.

Since I've been in the U.S. I've lost the back of my heart, 15 ft. of intestine and my marriage - and God, I miss my intestine.

Asking to meet with Italian businessmen instead of government officials. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Society cannot leap into Communism from capitalism without going through a socialist stage of development.

Have faith in the wisdom of that we call change

A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.

Everything will change. The only question is growing up or decaying.

Today I am 65 years old. I still look good. I appreciate and enjoy my age. A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it. You still bring to bear all your prior experience, but you are riding on another level. It's completely liberating.

But youth has a future. The closer he came to graduation, the more his heart beat. He said to himself: "This is still not life, this is only the preparation for life.

This was not the old Chichikov. This was some wreckage of the old Chichikov. The inner state of his soul might be compared to a demolished building, which has been demolished so that from it a new one could be built; but the new one has not been started yet, because the infinitive plan has not yet come from the architect and the workers are left in perplexity.

I'd like to peek into the drawing room, where you sometimes see only an open door into yet another room beyond the drawing room.