Quotes About Transition

All that is human must retrograde if it do not advance.

Around us even as its colorful weather moves us, Even as it pulls us into its dusty, twilit pockets. And every year there is a brief, startling moment When we pause in the middle of a long walk home and Suddenly feel something invisible and weightless Touching our shoulders, sweeping down from the air: It is the autumn wind pressing against our bodies; It is the changing light of fall falling on us. ""Fall

Officially, he was no longer a victim, he was a criminal

You do not destroy an idea by killing people; you replace it with a better one.

The situation is now ripe for superposition!

The most important reason to wind down the operation was that time was worth more to me than the extra money. Vivian and I wanted to enjoy our children and their families, and to travel, read, and learn. It was time once again to change course in life.

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!

I know it sounds like the end of the world, but worlds are ending every day and it's not always such a bad thing.

Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.

When you get to the end of all the light that you know and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things will happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly.

When you get to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: either you will be given something solid to stand on, or you will be taught how to fly.

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly.

We see that, sometimes, as a result of these dislocations, as a result of people leaving their original intended career and going into something else where their creativity could make a difference, that depressions and all kinds of other unfortunate events can have a paradoxically stimulating effect on creativity.

But it is hard to make anything like a truce between these two incompatible desires, the one for going on and on over the earth, the other that would settle for ever, in one place as in a grave and have nothing to do with change. Suppose a man to receive notice of death, it would be hard to decide whether to walk or sail until the end, seeing no man, or none but strangers; or to sit - alone - and by thinking or not thinking to make the change to come as little as is permitted. (pp 161)

Return refers not just to bringing troops out of harm's way but to complete homecoming for the whole person in body, mind, heart, and soul

Our birth is nothing but our death begun.

Our birth is nothing but our death begun, As tapers waste the moment they take fire.

From dreams I proceed to facts.

To some will come a time when change itself is beauty, if not heaven.

even reluctant curiosity would give way to habit, and habit to dependency.

Indeed, a funeral can give a subsequent event new importance for the entire family because the newly celebrated individual becomes the replacement for the family member who has just died.

Successful people recognize crisis as a time for change – from lesser to greater, smaller to bigger.

Birth and death are an event; however, between that, life is a process.

Death is the destiny and outcome of life's journey, but not the destination since thereupon starts another journey.