Quotes About Transition

So what oppresses and scares us? It is our own thoughts, obviously, What overwhelms people when they are about to leaves friends, family, old haunts and their accustomed way of life? Thoughts.

As a man, casting off worn out garments taketh new ones, so the dweller in the body, entereth into ones that are new.

Before I became old I tried to live well; now that I am old, I shall try to die well; but dying well means dying gladly.

Let go of the past. We must only begin.

such is Death, a greater change, from what now is, not to what is not, but to what is not now. Shall I then no longer be? Not so; thou wilt be; but something different, of which the World now hath need. For thou too wert born not when thou chosest, but when the World had need of thee.

When modes of music change, the fundamental laws of the state always change with them. —Plato

The tide of change rose and then receded, but it left behind an altered landscape.

We feel free when we escape, even if it be from the frying pan into the fire.

Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and turns into a racket.

We feel free when we escape - even if it be but from the frying pan to the fire.

We can never really be prepared for that which is wholly new. We have to adjust ourselves, and every radical adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem: we undergo a test, we have to prove ourselves. It needs subordinate self-confidence to face drastic change without inner trembling.

Every new adjustment is a crisis in self-esteem.

The man just out of the army is an ideal potential convert, and we find him among the early adherents of all contemporary mass movements. He feels alone and lost in the free-for-all of civilian life. The

We feel free when we escape, even if it be but from the frying pan into the fire.

El mundo del tercer milenio seguirá siendo, muy probablemente, un mundo de violencia política y de cambios políticos violentos. Lo único que resulta inseguro es hacia dónde llevarán

we shed the skins of who we used to be!

we all go through changes in search of self!

It's a funny thing coming home. Nothing changes. Everything looks the same, feels the same, even smells the same. You realize what's changed, is you.

How did I get to be a grown-up? At times, I find myself still sitting on the hillside, plotting revenge against the adult world.

She explains that in the evolution of religions, the god of the old religion always becomes the devil of the new.

My black hair, which used to glisten like wet violets on an ebony altar, is now a steely gray

All this mundane: merely the ordinary experience of my whiplash generation. Caught between our mothers (who stayed home) and the next generation (who took the right to achieve for granted), we suffered all the transitions of women's history inside our skulls. Whatever we did felt wrong. And whatever we did was fiercely criticized. That was the fate of our generation.

Capisco che l'adolescenza venga definita l'età ingrata. E' dura. Ma alla fine, a vent'anni suonati, le cose si aggiustano.

Le veritable voyage consiste toujours en la confrontation d'un imaginaire a une realite: il se situe entre ces deux mondes. Une secrete melancolie s'attache aux etres que l'on quitte apres les avoir beaucoup aimes.