Quotes About Transition

My whole life had been a chronology of -- changes .

The world may be ending, but all I could see was beginnings.

Keep in mind that the landscape is always changing; you must always examine what's working, evolve your ideas, and change the way you do things.

Quand on vit aux cotés des gens on ne se rend pas vraiment compte qu'ils changent, et c'est comme cela qu'on finit par les perdre.

The only thing scarier than death is the disappearance from youth.

Snakes shed their skin, cats their fur, manta rays their teeth. Man sheds used-up objects: he leaves an open Nesquik tin and a dirty glass on the kitchen counter, an open toothpaste tube, unmade beds, their sheets stained with urine; he leaves grandfather clocks, cigarette burns in the ashtrays, comics that have been scrawled on and books borrowed from the school library; he leaves clothes in the wardrobes and food in the fridge.

Things do not change; we change. —Henry David Thoreau, writer and philosopher T

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future too.

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

In no great while you will be no one and nowhere, and nothing that you now behold will be in existence, nor will anyone now alive. For it is in the nature of all things to change and alter and perish, so that others may arise in their turn.

All is change. You yourself are continuously changing and being destroyed bit by bit. So is the whole universe.

Time is like a river made up of the events which hap­pen, and a vi­ol­ent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is car­ried away, and an­other comes in its place, and this will be car­ried away too.

Change: nothing inherently bad in the process, nothing inherently good in the result.

You have embarked, made the voyage, and come to shore; get out. If indeed to another life, there is no want of gods, not even there. But if to a state without sensation, you will cease to be held by pains and pleasures, and to be a slave to the vessel, which is as much inferior as that which serves it is superior: for the one is intelligence and deity; the other is earth and corruption.

There is a kind of river of things passing into being and Time is a violent torrent. For no sooner is each seen, than it has been carried away, and another is being carried by, and that, too, will be carried away.

Wait for it patiently—annihilation or metamorphosis.

Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it;

You can live here as you expect to live there.

14. You have functioned as a part of something; you will vanish into what produced you. Or be restored, rather. To the logos from which all things spring. By being changed.

It is no evil for things to undergo change, and no good for things to subsist in consequence of change.

Some things are hurrying into existence, and other are hurrying out of it; and of that which is coming into existence, part is already extinguished. Motions and changes are continually renewing the world, just as the uninterrupted course of time is always renewing the infinite duration of ages.

as the heaps of sand piled on one another hide the former sands, so in life the events which go before are soon covered by those which come after.

All parts of the world, (all things I mean that are contained within the whole world), must of necessity at some time or other come to corruption. Alteration I should say, to speak truly and properly; but that I may be the better understood, I am content at this time to use that more common word.