Quotes About Transition

When I blurred the lines to soften them it was as if she began to disappear.

Los chinos tienen un proverbio: "Cuando el Yang está en su fase ascendente, el Yin nace", lo que traducido a nuestro lenguaje quiere decir que cuando un hombre ha dedicado lo mejor de su vida a los asuntos ordinarios de la sobrevivencia, el Yin o lado emocional de su naturaleza sale a la superficie y reclama sus derechos. Cuando ocurre este periodo, todo lo que antes parecía importante pierde su significación.

Anything that is alive is in a continual state of change and movement. The moment that you rest, thinking that you have attained the level you desire, a part of your mind enters a phase of decay.

Anything that is alive is in a continual state of change and movement. The moment that you rest, thinking that you have attained the level you desire, a part of your mind enters decay

Like Roach, you don't want to abandon the skills and experience you have gained, but to find a new way to apply them.

In fact, whenever you must learn a new skill or alter your career path later in life, you reconnect with that youthful, adventurous part of yourself.

The past often has elements worth appropriating, qualities that would be foolish to reject out of a need to distinguish yourself.... Making a display of doing things differently from your predecessor can make you seem childish and in fact out of control, unless your actions have a logic of their own.

Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.

We are born in a clear field and die in a dark forest.

I make no claim to be a philosopher, but this much I have observed: that whenever a thing seems at its zenith, you may be sure its destruction has already started.

1979, with Andy Martin, one of my old friends from Footlights, acting as my best man. For our honeymoon, we borrowed Ruth's parents' cottage near Hay-on-Wye. After two blissful weeks, we returned to London, ready for the very different political fray following the election of Margaret Thatcher. That was the only substantial reference to her. I slowly worked my way through the

Nothing has happened until it happens

Life is a dream from which we all must wake before we can dream again.

When change comes, you can scream and try to force things to stay the same. But you'll usually end up getting trampled. However, if you can direct the changes, they can serve you.

Past is past, and the future is ahead.

Humankind is made for uncertainty, struggle, choice and change.

but it be the strangeness you see that pulls you to the next horizon.

Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came.

All things change. Until we wake, the dream drifts on the wind.

People frequently continued to go on as they had been after all purpose in it had been lost.

People never really changed, yet the world did, with disturbing regularity. You just had to live with it, or at least live through it. Now and then, with luck, you could affect the direction of the changes, but even if you stopped one, you only set another in motion.

At dawn the day was born, just as twilight gave birth to night, but at dawn, night died, and at twilight, day.

Change came so slowly you never noticed it creeping up on you, or far too fast for comfort, but it came. Nothing

A general who draws his sword has put aside his baton and become a common soldier.