Quotes About Transition

Before, I used to ask permission to my parents to leave the house. Now it's - I ask permission to my children to leave the house. They own the house.

You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

The hard part for me was being an Olympic gold medalist and having that persona; you don't see too many Olympic gold medalists go into acting. It's actually even more difficult. You're not taken very seriously, and you're looked at in a different light, so it was kind of hard for me to go straight from Olympics into acting.

On voudrait qu'un trait d'union existe, aussi infime soit-il, entre avant et après.

He did not think of God nor of his family but remarked to himself, 'Okay, I'm dying.

The future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

Life is a mere waiting room in which we spend time before entering into the void.

No, I don't want to commit suicide, but I should like to fade away and die gently. To depart from life as one gets out of a bath.

The soul takes nothing with her to the other world but her education and culture; and these, it is said, are of the greatest service or of the greatest injury to the dead man, at the very beginning of his journey thither.

Democracy passes into despotism.

From the end spring new beginnings.

Around the world, every week, 3 million people move from rural areas into cities. That's a San Francisco every two days! That isn't a future statistic. That's a today statistic.

Tidak masalah membayangkan pernikahan akan seperti New York City dan mendapati bahwa ternyata lebih menyerupai Brussels. Bukan berarti ada yang salah, atau bahwa kau dikutuk untuk bercerai. Itu hanya berarti bahwa kau menaiki pesawat yang berbeda.

We are still too much a part of the story of what is happening to religious consciousness to assess its meaning.

I was walking along looking for somebody, and then suddenly I wasn't anymore.

As the trend in the ballots slowly made me realize that in a manner of speaking the guillotine would fall on me I started to feel quite dizzy. I thought that I had done my life's work and could now hope to live out my days in peace. I told the Lord with deep conviction, 'Don't do this to me. You have younger and better (candidates) who could take up this great task with a totally different energy and with different strength.' Evidently, this time he didn't listen to me.

I am able to follow my own death step by step. Now I move softly towards the end.

Many things end tonight,' quoth Valgard, 'and your life is one.

What else is life but always bidding farewell?

Di dunia ini manusia bukan berduyun-duyun lahir dan berduyun-duyun pula kembali pulang. Seorang-seorang mereka datang. Seorang-seorang mereka pergi. Dan yang belum pergi dengan cemas-cemas menunggu saat nyawanya terbang entah ke mana.

But no one experience should be followed and dwelt in forever. Life in its more perfected state will be full of alterations–not a rut, into which if you are once set you must continually travel.

Only two things cause change- a snappy desire or a snappy discomfort.

The most important measure of brainpower is the ability to adapt to change.

The real catastrophe is not in the crisis itself, but with what comes within it and what comes after.