Quotes About Transition

adjustment is a must.

Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

After a few months in my parents' basement, I took an apartment near the state university, where I discovered both crystal methamphetamine and conceptual art. Either one of these things are dangerous, but in combination they have the potential to destroy entire civilizations.

I saw myself like a piece of wood floating down a river, suddenly tossed against the shore, caught in a stagnant pool.

But you know, I don't think I will be so scared to die. I think it's like today: the end of a vacation when you are ready to go home.

Since reason and love, the forces I had come to rely on in my life, have betrayed me, I am in unknown territory.

But you know, I don't think I would be so scared to die. I think it's like today—the end of a vacation, when you are ready to go home.

Sometimes, it strikes me that life goes on, but it does, inexorably.

teenagers are almost a different species than the rest of us, particularly in social situations.

I go back, this time to a swankier neighborhood.

The seventh and eighth grade were for me, and for every single good and interesting person I have ever known, what the writers of the Bible meant when they used the words hell and the pit . . . It was all over for any small feeling that one was essentially all right. One wasn't.

Are the fireworks over, or just beginning?

the behavior we see as "diminished" in elderly parents, clients, and friends actually exists to do a very specific developmental job.

If we don't resolve the key issues at each stage, we may get stuck and be considered immature by our peers.

the Big Three had shut down their assembly lines to retool from subcompacts to behemoths with tanks measured not in gallons, but Gulf wars.

Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows.

History suggests that a cult graduates into a church if it outlives its founders.

Uno muere a plazos, en contra de lo que pensamos. Porque el final del amor es lo más parecido a la muerte para todos aquellos que no han experimentado la muerte real, que es sin discusión lo más parecido a la muerte. Los muertos, justo antes de morirse, ponen un gesto de ah, vaya, era esto. En cambio, en el final del amor nadie entiende nada, ¿qué es esto?, nadie me había contado nada de esto, porque no reconoce a la muerte entregando uno de sus plazos.

You can't go on running forever…" "And you can't go on…" Alfie desperately searched for the right word, "…mopedding* forever!

That night Jack lay in bed, in the place just between awake and asleep. The room was beginning to disappear to make way for the world of dreams.

until recently, it would have been Grandpa tucking Jack in. Now

Apparently, for some reason known only to themselves, these people... have chosen to cling to hydrocarbon-fueled power generation well past the point at which they could have replaced it with nuclear generation.

Chesterton,' he said gently, 'this is the hardest part of all for you. I know exactly what you're going through and it's no triumph for me to be right. I have transported us all away from your world and your Universe and we have landed on a new planet. Accept that because you must. Tears and anger will not take you back to Earth, so learn from this new experience and profit by it.