Quotes About Transition

I move from realism to fantasy without the spectator ever noticing.

It's a different outlook, and one that I understand. When you are a former member of the Warsaw Pact, when you have lived behind the Berlin Wall, when you have experienced the communist systems that existed in these countries, for them, the West represents hope.

I don't miss politics.

To surrender is to relinquish the illusion of control, which initiates the death part of the death/rebirth process, which is the transition from the bondage of the womb-like Segregated State to the freedom of the ever-expanding Integrated State. No faith or belief is required to accomplish this act of surrender, only clear-seeing. When one begins to understand ego and fear for what they really are, then this process becomes as easy and natural as dropping a heavy weight.

You go forward when you can't stay where you are. That's the process.

Life is a series of abandonings.

often started in a different hemisphere.

Too young to hold on and too old to just break free and run

In the world of energy politics, the sudden vanishing of the word 'coal' is a remarkable and unprecedented event.

It was ironic—the great socialists could only survive by becoming capitalists." But

But a deeper transition affected people of color in this dazed context. Before course selections and extra-curricular sign-up sheets, before bags could even be unpacked in rooms, black students had to situate themselves within their own race. The process was complicated, conflicting, usually silent, highly fraught, and wholly invisible to their white classmates. Most of whom had never actively had to consider the role of race in their lives.

Loving books is a good thing. A solid thing. Having a big collection of good ones is important, or at least it seemed that way on every single day until you moved, and then it seemed like one of the worst ideas you ever had.

See, when you're a little kid, nobody ever warns you that you've got an expiration date. One day you're hot stuff and the next day you're a dirt sandwich.

I'm having a seriously hard time getting used to the fact that summer is over and I have to get out of bed every morning to go to school.

Ed, we just witnessed a peaceful transition in government. Do you realize how miraculous that is...Today, tiny Cicely, Alaska, stood up and put another W in the win category for democracy.

A sea-level task is one we'd expect to complete before intentionally stopping to do something else.

looked watery, like it had suddenly filled

that's true, then maybe we need to accept the idea that progress isn't such a bad thing, even when there's collateral damage. You shouldn't continue to use outdated methods when a better option exists just to maintain the status quo." "Come on, John Henry, you can't really believe that!" "Do you want technological advancement to remain stagnant? This could be your chance to acquire some new skills.

There's nothing good about goodnight when it means goodbye.

You have to learn how to die if you wanna be alive.

I doubt you will enjoy it. But that is the price of change. Someone always pays.

It was as if a different person put the key in the ignition and drove away from everything that was familiar. There was no going back now. There was no going forward either. He was going in sideways, sort of, and as frightening as that was, there was the thrill...

But then what? What occurs after revelation and paralysis? Either death or a slow and certain thawing. A returning to the physical world.

It is easy to surpass a predecessor, but difficult to avoid being surpassed by a successor.