Quotes About Transition

Nothing gold can stay.

So dawn goes down to day/ nothing gold can stay.

Nature's first green is gold

Magic is Wisdom in Transit, for there's no black or white Magic. Its just Wisdom in Transit.

This saying good-by on the edge of the dark And the cold to an orchard so young in the bark Reminds me of all that can happen...

Nature's first green is gold. Nothing gold can stay.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors.

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

all things live only if something else is cleared out of the path to make way. No death; no life. No exceptions. Things must come and go. People. Years. Ideas. Everything. The wheel turns, and the old is cleared away as fodder for the new.

Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., the summer I turned

The most difficult mountain to cross is the threshold. DANISH PROVERB

Life is nothing but moments of crossing over.

world won't shed a tear.

Power rarely ends up in the hands of those who start a revolution, or even of those who further it; power sticks to those who bring it to a conclusion.

Power goes to those who end the revolution. Not the one who starts it.

Once beyond the village, where the cottages ceased abruptly, on either side of the road they could smell through the darkness the friendly fields again; and they braced themselves for the last long stretch, the home stretch, the stretch that we know is bound to end, some time, in the rattle of the door-latch, the sudden firelight, and the sight of familiar things greeting us as long-absent travelers from far oversea.

This is the end of everything' (he said), 'at least it is the end of the career of Toad, which is the same thing; the popular

It was as though, in one moment, he had become a stranger. And I a stranger to myself.

Why hell, look at us. Old men alone. Decrepit old bachelors out here in the country seventeen miles from the closest town which don't amount to much of a good goddamn even when you get there. Think of us. Crotchety and ignorant. Lonesome. Independent. Set in all our ways. How you going to change now at this age of life? I can't say, Raymond said. But I'm going to. That's what I know.

Was that what it meant to be alive—moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step?

Tell me what you see vanishing and I Will tell you who you are —W. S. Merwin, "For Now

The central thing that Winslow could remember from this tme was the feeling of satisfaction he had, all the ride down with Carole King for company. As far as he could take it. As far as he could go. Something at least would happen next and this part would be over. He could feel the same movement starting up inside him, the same gathering wave, and wondered where it would leave him this time. Nothing to do, though. Nothing to do but wait and see.

Life Lessons FROM LOSS If you experience loss, it doesn't means you lost. it means you've been blessed with an opportunity to take a moment, realize how special someone or something has been to you, and go through new doors that were closed to you before.

He was carrying a little more weight, his hair greyer, but he looked healthy and relaxed, like a man who was comfortable with where he was in life and what lay ahead.