Quotes About Transition

Last Christmas Daphne hadn't been born yet; nor had Fanny. Now here sat Daphne chewing a wad of blue tissue while Franny stirred her fists through Agatha's jigsaw puzzle. They both seemed so accustomed to being here. And Danny and Lucy had completely vanished . Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

if you stay still, earth buries you, ready or not.

One turns at last even from glory itself with a sigh of relief.

When we lose our innocence - when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot - we take leave of our sense.

When I was fifteen, I felt it coming; now I was sixteen, and it hit. My feet had imperceptibly been set on a new path...there wasn't a whole lot I could do about it, or about anything. I was going to hell on a handcart, that was all, and I knew it and everyone around me knew it, and there it was.

Some mornings when I wake up, it takes a long time to remember who I am. Like, it takes a while for everything that's happened in last month to download into my brain. It's nice, not knowing. Even if it's just for five minutes.

I knew what she was asking, of course. I'd been asking it myself a moment before. But I wasn't sure how you went from dreams to reality without the magic leaking out - or becoming too wild and powerful.

The war will end one day. Wars always do.

One faces the future with one's past. —Pearl S. Buck

One faces the future with one's past.

Still, she wouldn't have traded anything for this moment, standing there and looking down at the plains spread out below. Tally had spent the last four years staring at the skyline of New Pretty Town, thinking it was the most beautiful sight in the world, but she didn't think so anymore. •

Toplumun organize bir ÅŸekilde belli güç odaklar?n?n maddi ç?karlar? uÄŸruna tüketime ve israfa al??t?r?lmas? düzmecesini fark etmeden bir evreden diÄŸerine geçmek oldukça zor görünüyordu.

It's only after the change is fully formed that you can see what's happened.

One day, when you are grown up, you suddenly become aware that something has gone

Today's veterans often come home to find that, although they're willing to die for their country, they're not sure how to live for it.

Given the profound alienation of modern society, when combat vets say that they miss the war, they might be having an entirely healthy response to life back home. Iroquois warriors did not have to struggle with that sort of alienation because warfare and society existed in such close proximity that there was effectively no transition from one to the other.

All new markets are inefficient at first

Quizá mi vida no es más que una serie de momentos de vestirse y desvestirse de nuevo para la tarea en cuestión.

The time to look for a new job is when you don't need one. The time to switch jobs is before it feels comfortable.

Its never too late ...to start heading in the right direction.

There's not a lot to say about the Cul-de-Sac except to realize that it exists and to embrace the fact that when you find one, you need to get off it, fast. That's because a dead end is keeping you from doing something else. The opportunity cost of investing your life in something that's not going to get better is just too high.

the new thing is rarely as good as the old thing was. If you need the alternative to be better than the status quo from the very start, you'll never begin.

Quitting is better than coping because quitting frees you up to excel at something else.

You don't have to like change to take advantage of it.