Quotes About Transition

People do not necessarily think and consider in a prescribed way before choosing the path they'll walk. For the most part they simply wander, at some point, into a different meadow.

I entered this Health Dojo because the war ended and life suddenly became precious.

Thirty. "Something of the maiden's fragrance lingers with a woman until she is twenty-nine, but nothing is left about the body of the woman of thirty years.

Those days, as I remember them now, were the last in which the dying embers of happiness still glowed.

He would show up not with women but with two or three newspaper or magazine reporters. According to some of these fellows, now that the military had fallen, the impoverished poets and artists were going to be the new public heroes.

Apparently when someone stays in a civilized kingdom too long, even his skin becomes delicate.

Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. This is what we both certainly are. The revolution must be taking place somewhere, but the old morality persists unchanged in the world around us and lies athwart our way. However much the waves on the surface of the sea may rage, the water at the bottom, far from experiencing a revolution, lies motionless, awake but feigning sleep.

Ahora, ahora, ahora. Cada "ahora" que señalo con el dedo se va volando lejos para dejar paso a un nuevo "ahora"."¡Vaya! ¿¡esto qué es!?", pensé mientras bajaba las escaleras del puente. Menuda idiotez. A lo mejor es que soy demasiado feliz.

Like an insect larva that repeatedly molts its skin as it develops, Ayako rapidly transformed from a young girl into a fully-grown woman.

Just because you're changing doesn't mean you're not in control of the person you become.

Our knowledge of dynamic processes is necessarily inferior to our ability to describe stationary conditions.

Beware of harking back to what you were once when God wants you to be something you have never been. "If any man will do . . . , he shall know .

No one enters into the experience of entire sanctification without going through a "white funeral" - the burial of the old life

If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.

If you do not cut the moorings, God will have to break them by a storm and send you out.

When "important" individuals go away we are sad, until we see that they are meant to go, so that only one thing is left for us to do—to look into the face of God for ourselves.

Tension without cosmic pulsation to animate it is the transition to nothingness

Every thing-become is mortal. Not only peoples, languages, races and Culture are transient.

There is no substituting anything else for Life. After Life there is only Death.

But you see," Gladys murmured, with a strange sad tender smile upon her face, "I have had all my summer in my spring; it is all over now. There are nothing but the night and the winter. While you—you have had the "cold and the darkness first; your sun has yet to dawn.

A little farther on, in the old playing-field, there were the wickets, and the bats, and the jumping poles, and four or five boys, in their shirt sleeves and their straw hats, enjoying their half-holiday, as we had done before them. So life goes on; when one is bowled out, another is ready to step into his shoes, and, no matter how many the ball of death may knock over, the cricket of life is kept up the same, and players are never wanting!

Nothing in the entire universe ever perishes, believe me, but things vary, and adopt a new form. The phrase "being born" is used for beginning to be something different from what one was before, while "dying" means ceasing to be the same. Though this thing may pass into that, and that into this, yet the sums of things remains unchanged.

When the velocity of progress increases beyond a certain point, it becomes indistinguishable from crisis.

I always thought that whatever I had was temporary.