Quotes About Transition

Pioneering is not feeling well, not Indians, beasts. Not all their riddling can forestall one leaving. Sam, your uncle has had to go fróm us to live with God. 'Then Aunt went too?' Dear, she does wait still. Stricken: 'Oh. Then he takes us one by one.

I'm not sure history has ended.

Thus, continues Langer, the question is no longer one of 'how a physical process can be transformed into something non-physical in a physical system, but how the phase of being felt is attained, and how the process may pass into unfelt phases again'.

Our civilization is now in the transition stage between the age of warring empires and a new age of world unity and peace.

When we want things to stay the same, we'll always wind up playing catch-up. Better to go with the flow.

When change is easy, the need for it cannot be foreseen; when the need for change is apparent, change has become expensive, difficult, and time-consuming.

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it.

Max Planck observed, revolutions in science sometimes have to wait for funerals.

We fret about how to keep going the same old way when we should be casting around for another way that's better.

Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.

So he passed over, and all the trumpets sounded for him on the other side.

To make a good death is to proceed gracefully into a better body and a better life. The consequences of a bad death are hard to look at. You will not make a good death is a power curse; it makes Fuck you sound like a benediction.

A revolution in itself is not a blessing.

We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

In some ancient cultures, elder rituals helped men shift from warriors to elders. What kind of ritual might allow you to surrender instinctual masculinity for the elder's spiritual consciousness? Could you create your own ritual?

Son, different rules apply during the End of the World." I did not know what to say to that.

To old times, May they never come again...' 'Old time past and better times to come!

We need not destroy the past. It is gone.

If my work is accepted, I must move on to the point where it is not.

The interval between the decay of the old and the formation and establishment of the new constitutes a period of transition which must always necessarily be one of uncertainty, confusion, error, and wild and fierce fanaticism.

We're competing with everything: the beach, the mall, bookstores. Libraries are in a transition right now, caught between two forces, the old ways and technology. Libraries are under a lot of pressure to provide both.

For access to the church of God was open to the Gentiles who were to take the place left empty by the Jews.

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.