Quotes About Transition

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future. [Address in the Assembly Hall at the Paulskirche in Frankfurt, June 26 1963]

It harassed him always, that beautiful snow. He could never understand why he didn't go to California. Yet he stayed in Colorado, in the deep snow, because it was too late now.

Bandini looked at a patch of blue in the east. 'Pretty soon we'll have spring', he said. 'We sure will!

Water boils most fiercely just before it disappears. And so it is, evidently, with human affairs.

Clearly, the John Adams of 1774 was quite different from the man who proclaimed "Farewell Politicks" in 1766 and again in 1771 and 1772.

Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.

Damn! I hate farewells!

IT'S BEEN EIGHTEEN MONTHS SINCE ALYSS'S DEATH

Washhouse is at the back," he said. "Breakfast in ten minutes." She nodded again, uncertain as to how to respond. His tone and manner were not as grim as the previous night.

A lot of times we find ourselves in this wonderful place where we've gotten to, but there is another place for us to go & we kind of have to leave behind the security of who we've become & go to the place who we are becoming

IN SETTING UP A NEW SYSTEM, TREAD SOFTLY. YOU MAY BE DISTURBING ANOTHER SYSTEM THAT IS ACTUALLY WORKING

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy.

I see myself at crossroads in my life, mapless, lacking bits of knowledge - then, the Moon breaks through, lights up the path before me...

when everything changes, I need a bookmark - I need you...

time begins when we awaken and ends when we fall asleep...

you are a river rock and belong in a stream - not here in this upper room sinking in my bed...

at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...

I think our 'changes' are not as radical as we suppose - in some way we persist as us...

don't be afraid of going by a way you've never gone - that's the way we're all going...

as the foot of the marble sink that was Jonathan's next destination. His sink. One of two.

Whatever his bullets touched instantly joined a parallel universe.