Quotes About Transition

As Joseph Campbell wrote about middle age, 'There is perhaps nothing worse than reaching the top of the ladder and discovering that you're on the wrong wall.

The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.

Everything changes in the fullness of time and everything that lies ahead of us is a mystery; even in the end of our lives we have lived, but there it will still be a closed book when it becomes life after death. -MillYentei

The nearer people approach old age the closer they return to a semblance of childhood, until the time comes for them to depart this life, again like children, neither tired of living nor aware of death.

Each moment is a fruit of the past and seed of future.

For when a bride enters the husband's house she brings with her not just the promise of a new generation but also new food, a new culture and with that new thoughts that enrich her husband's household.

Rules always change in times of war and in times of peace, as they do in times of fortune and misfortune.

Death will be the direct result of merits and demerits earned by living creatures in their lifetime. You will merely oversee the transition. The burden of death shall be borne by those who live.' Thus all creatures die not because of external factors but because of their own karma.

This is a book for anyone undertaking an adventure and leaving behind a life that has been familiar, comfortable, and predictable.

Some things are not meant to be forever. They are just meant to get us there. Every friendship, every job, every place we live, is just a bridge to learning something we need in order to become who we are to be. People leave us because their part in our journey is finished. We never complete anything without having a lesson to be learned. Good-byes always leave us with a piece missing, don't they? Change is always difficult.

She was not born, but rather became, Jane Austen.

Hidup tak pernah berakhir mati. Hidup hanya berganti wujud. Dan sepanjang perjalanan hidup, kau dan aku, kita semua, hanya berjalan menembusi satu tabir itu saja. -Rimba Amniotik-

I did Albert Hall, I got to play the Hall of Fame with Prince. So I've done that kind of stuff for ages. It wasn't until after we finished working on Brainwash, my dad's album after he died, then it was like 'That phase is over in my life now, now we can get on with our music, with our band.'

All through my sixties I felt I was still within hailing distance of middle age, not safe on its shores, perhaps, but navigating its coastal waters. My seventieth birthday failed to change this because I managed scarcely to notice it, but my seventy-first did change it. Being 'over seventy' is being old: suddenly I was aground on that fact and saw that the time had come to size it up.

The trouble with life is that incidents so often merely follow each other rather than grow out of each other ...

I learned new things about myself, about God, about life—all of it possible only because I was fired. I feel thankful.

The biggest issue of the twenty-first century is not necessarily the "decline" of neighborhood. It may be that we have all moved to a new neighborhood and have not learned how to get along with the new neighbors.

Things in rest tend to remain in rest. Things in motion tend to remain in motion." - Practice

Georgia had felt the colours and the rain, but she would not miss here. And there was something lost. The now-ness of things. It was not pretty.

Before the children,' Alice said, nodding her head slowly. 'Children change everything. Family change everything. You must cross the river, to the other side of yourself. After that you find it.

Sometimes you must go through the ugly to get to the pretty

Reading a book is not change the words.

It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

Captain's log, Stardate 9529.1. This is the final cruise of the Starship Enterprise under my command. This ship and her history will shortly become the care of another crew. To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man … where no one has gone before." Captain James Kirk Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country