Quotes About Transition

By the time it came to the edge of the Forest, the stream had grown up, so that it was almost a river, and, being grown-up, it did not run and jump and sparkle along as it used to do when it was younger, but moved more slowly. For it knew now where it was going

Travelling in one direction. Yearning to be going the other way. She has lived here. She will survive there.

La vie nous habitue à la mort par le sommeil. La vie nous avertit qu'il existe une autre vie par le rêve.

La vie change après, mais on ne peut pas s'imaginer comment. Cela prend du temps à comprendre, pas comme un déménagement où on ne trouve plus rien. Non, tout est à sa place, mais rien n'est pareil. Sauf qu'on ne le sait pas avant longtemps. On le sait, bien sûr, mais on se demande pourquoi il n'y a pas plus de preuves.

Virginity is like a balloon. One prick and it's all gone.

The man was to be pitied, a simplistic dinosaur incapable of comprehending the new dynamics of the educational suprasystem and the role of academics as change-agents.

The old tales of China tell us that all things may grow and change. A stone may become a plant. A plant may become an animal. An animal may become a human. A human may become a god. Just so, a snake may become a woman. And we are told of one who did.

Especially good spirits might be brought to the Land of Darkness only briefly or not at all.

The lights of my generation have almost all gone out.

Sometimes confusion feels like pain. Sometimes it feels like falling.

We all have different paths. In the beginning, we come with our eyes closed and we follow anyone who is willing to lead us into their path and then we slowly divert into our own.

The Islamic world is passing through a most devastating period of transition. A history of economic and scientific change which in Europe took five hundred years, is, in the Muslim world, being squeezed into a couple of generations. Such a transition period…makes human beings very insecure. They look around for something to hold onto, that will give them an identity. In our case, that something is usually Islam. [Islamic Spirituality: The Forgotten Revolution]

That's the way life takes us,' Elleke once said. 'It takes us like this, then it turns us over and takes us like that.' What she didn't say was that through it all we manage to cling to something that makes sense. -- By The Sea

the world always moves on despite the chaos and waste in its midst.

The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

Life doesn't walk away, we do.

Time change - Moments don't.

Divorce is a death. It is the death of a relationship. It is the death of your dreams. You have to start all over.

Abigail Van Buren

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

Laws change; people die; the land remains.

Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory.