Quotes About Transition

The whole difference between the nineteenth century and the twentieth century could be summed up in two words, graveyard and cemetery.

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

All things change according to the state we are in. Nothing is fixed.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

Nearly all libertarians were once conservatives or progressives or independent statists of some stripe. But scarcely any conservatives, progressives, or independent statists were once libertarians. This asymmetry in the direction of ideological migration is interesting and perhaps informative.

people "who don't have a chance to take revenge are forced, in a sense, to move on and focus on something different.

In our era, just as in every transitional age, God seems dead, but it is really our Enlightenment culture that has died.

Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep between the two. This you cannot do without temperance. —Ralph Waldo Emerson

So move before the wave. If you don't you'll end up flailing in its backwash.

We . . . would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. – 2 Corinthians 5:8 NIV

This time, as we went over the bridge on the way to the airport, my attorney asked me, "Well, how do you feel now?" I thought about it for a moment, then looked at him and answered, "Intimidating.

retire-or-expire

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When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected to move again only you don't remember what moves you because no one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.

Russia, after all, has existed for a thousand years; the Soviet era lasted only seventy-four. The Romanov dynasty, which included such towering figures as Peter and Catherine the Great, had ruled for more than three centuries. It came to an end in brutal murders in a Siberian cellar, but many Russians never knew this had happened. Or how. Or why.

Any honest person working in a DDO will tell you there are times she would like a holiday from the DDO experience, but after you've worked in one, an ordinary workplace becomes for many the nice place to visit and not the place where you want to live.

No hay nada malo en estar deprimido —dice Pearsall—. La vida y sus transiciones pueden ser tristes. Llorar... no es ser "disfuncional". Es ser humano.»

more John Doe than Mike May. He played with this changing

As the citizens of the former Soviet Union are discovering to their consternation, a market system means the end of the long lines for bread that were a curse of life in a society of centralized command, but it also means the introduction of a line that did not exist formerly—namely, standing in line at employment offices, looking for work.

A testimony is a precious gift of the Spirit, a sign that we have in fact been born again (1 John 5:1). It is a transition from darkness to light, from an aimless and wandering maneuver to a determined, Spirit-guided pursuit. We have put off skepticism and put on a believing heart. We have died as pertaining to cynicism and come alive as pertaining to gospel gladness and optimism. We have put to death the old man of doubt and quickened the new man of assurance and certitude.

the transition from lost to found is never an easy one. It is never easy to be a prodigal son -- or daughter. It is never easy to say, 'I will arise and go to my father ...' (Luke 15:18, 19). This is never easy, because it is not until our situation becomes completely hopeless that we can humble ourselves to the extent of admitting that such a gross mistake was our own.

The Egyptians took their goods to their graves with them. The great dynasties of Britain and Europe try to keep things in the family so long as there is something in the bank. But Americans prefer to turn it into cash and start anew. They are less sentimental about these things.

He had left home one day, yesterday, and come home today, and the change was too much for him to bear. And this was why he could not go home all at once.

upon that change he passes over to the ranks of the Old Salts and ceases to be a Boot forever. Youth rebels and age conserves; between them, they advance.