Quotes About Transition

in between. It's like the whole thing is winking at us.

You need to evade every influence that tends to keep you frozen in the past.

How easy it is to upend your life. To restless, heedless me it was nothing.

For me, this wasn't a big leap—our fleeing known New York for the uncertainty of life in Europe was within the continuum of leaps I had been making my entire life.

was the intimation that fresh pastures beckoned. Jansch's Jack Orion

Revolution is an amateur thing for almost everybody;

But their refuge had been a dead end; all that inflexible old guard could do was to die and let younger minds, still limber, take over.

Nope. Gadflies such as yourself are utterly necessary. Nor am I opposed to 'turning the rascals out'—it's usually the soundest rule of politics. But it's well to take a look at what new rascals you are going to get before you jump at any chance to turn your present rascals out.

But there was winter in my heart and I was looking for the door to summer.

But that would have left no choice. This was contradiction; at cusp, choice is. By choice, spirit grows.

Robert A. Heinlein

Hell, was no military man; was computer technician who had bumbled into wrong field.

Oh, no, Sharpie. I've stood my watch; it's somebody else's turn. Now that you have resigned, we have no organization.

Often, when new growth occurs, the most dreadful things seem to happen, but then we see that they were exactly what was required.

When it is time for growth, the old ways and the old habits must welcome the new. The old way seems to hinder the new growth at every point, but if you persevere, this way will bring a new consciousness to birth.

What is man? A bridge between the ape and the Superman — a bridge over an abyss. — F.W. Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra

As we said at the beginning, the bedrock claim of existentialism holds that existence precedes essence, or we have no essence. Like electrons, we jump from one information system to another, and only those who have not looked closely believe that one essence remains constant through all transformations.

I ain't know what it is to be a girl Mistress Grandsol. I pass straight from child to woman without even a pause for girl between. Girl is a privilege I never know.

She walked a ways down the concourse, and looked back and waved and then turned a corner and was out of sight. I still stood for a moment, looking at the last place I had seen her, being careful not to be routine, while I became the other guy again, the one I was without her.

Loss is the price we pay for progress," she said. "Only as we leave things behind do we move forward.

I sat and looked up at the blue sky and across at the blank windows for a long time. A woman I'd once cared about had worked in anadvertising agency over there. Sometimes, when the sun came at them from a different angle, I could see through the windows across the street and watch her moving about her office. Agency was gone now. Maybe the whole building was gone, replaced by a new one. It was hard to remember.

last I looked appeared to be turning the place into a Marin County whorehouse.

Our business was done at the river's brink;

Glad was I when I reached the other bank. Now for a better country. Vain presage! Who were the strugglers, what war did they wage, Whose savage trample thus could pad the dank soil to a plash? Toads in a poisoned tank Or wild cats in a red-hot iron cage-