Quotes About Transition

You cannot, in human experience, rush into the light. You have to go through the twilight into the broadening day before the noon comes and the full sun is upon the landscape.

The use of a university is to make young gentlemen as unlike their fathers as possible. ["The Power of Christian Young Men", Address at the Young Men's Christian Association's Celebration, Pittsburgh, October 24, 1914]

What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!

Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Life has got a habit of not standing hitched. You got to ride it like you find it. You got to change with it. If a day goes by that don't change some of your old notions for new ones, that is just about like trying to milk a dead cow.

Today's problem is replaced by new prob lems in an unending procession. We seem barely to have a chance to catch our breath before new challenges confront us.

Change is like a river: nothing is the same, even for an instant. Everything is continually moving through the six stages of change: about to come into being, beginning, expanding, approaching maximum potential, peaking, and finally, passing its peak and flowing into its new condition.

But like most dreams, they end and you've got to wake up the next morning.

La muerte toma siempre la forma de la alcoba que nos contiene.

When I left my village, it was like I took a step with my right foot and, by the time my left foot came to join it, four years had passed.

It was the same feeling I had when I first got to Britain. How many times could one restart a life? "I read that in China, people will transplant large number of trees and bring them to the newly developed cities. Chinese people seem to be very adaptable, like the trees." You were trying to comfort me. "Yes, but once the trees grew older, you can't transplant them again. The roots are too embedded into the ground.

Man tends to think that he is a creator, that he is like God. This is especially true of intellectuals, and in the last century, intellectuals tended to forget that they were like everyone else. Writing this book was a description of man going from a state of God back to a state of man, back to being a normal person.

After sitting for so long in the ruined cabin, the objects we had taken must have been shocked when we pulled them out into the world. I could almost sense their fear, coming through the bags.

Smudges of darkness were beginning to collect around the roots of the trees, but they were still faint, as if the night had agreed to hold off for a bit longer.

You'll see for yourself. Something will disappear from your life.

She got off at the train station, the final stop, but in the station saw neither signs nor people. She sat on a cold bench in the waiting room, listening. She was starting to wonder if this was really a station. Based on experience she'd assumed as much, but you couldn't count on things being the way they'd always been. Perhaps this was no longer a station, and she simply hadn't heard the news.

Unable to turn back the clock, they let themselves be turned.

She's always hated good-byes and as she got older she hated them even more.

At that moment, the thing Knut had been perceiving as "time" melted away. Because starting with this moment, he no longer had any time to think about time.

Life is a spark between two identical voids, the darkness before birth and the one after death.

As we reach the crest of life and look at the path before us, we apprehend that the path no longer ascends but slopes downward toward decline and diminishment. From that point on, concerns about death are never far from mind.

Life is like carrying a message from the child you were to the old man you'll become, without losing it along the way.

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