Quotes About Transition

hundred years. The end of a place Shan had come

A year is an eternity in politics - though less than a moment in history.

One door was shut and a gate was wide open for me. I step in the gate and keep on walking and never will I want to go back to that door.

A baby opens you up, is the problem. No way around it unless you want to pay someone else to have it for you. There's before and there's after. To live in your body before is one thing. To live in your body after is another. Some deal by attempting to micromanage; some go crazy; some zone right the hell on out. Or all of the above.

You have to leave where you are to get where you are going

The old ideas don't satisfy the new generation any longer, while the old generations are unable to accept and assimilate the new ideas.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

To think about what is new, we cannot use old concepts— particularly not concepts that have been emptied of their meaning and their usefulness by the very assaults that brought about this break in human history. We cannot use concepts from Before, inherited from a world that exists no longer, to explore the After.

Man muss fähig sein, sowohl eine öffentliche Rolle, als auch ein inneres Selbst durchzuhalten; denn durch die öffentliche Rolle manifestiert sich das innere selbst als etwas "völlig Idiosynkratisches und undefinierbares, aber doch unmißverständlich Identifizierbares, sodass wir nicht durch einen plötzlichen Rollenwechsel verwirrt werden.

This, she thought, was the sadness of teachers. Each semester is a contained little life - a relationship that begins, peaks, but always ends. They cycle in, cycle out, but you stay in one place. The teacher grows older, but the students never age. They are perpetually eighteen, twenty-one, lives always just on the cusp of beginning. You watch them walk off into the world, knowing you helped them become what they're becoming. You suffer the same ending again and again.

It's never too late to start a happy ending

The train is a small world moving through a larger world.

El me dijo que cuando la gente juzga que un cambio es bueno, lo acepta. Tu actitud hacia el cambio se modificó en el momento en que tomaste conciencia de sus efectos.

When you get to your mid-20s, you start to feel responsibilities for the things that you do and the people around you. It's a cool age.

Death is part of this life and not of the next.

There will always be children and there will always be old people. We spend most of our lives somewhere in between. When we produce the children, we get to be royalty for a short while--the world pulls out its chair for the pregnant woman--but soon we are once again worker bees, tending the little ones.

Go from me. Yet I feel that I shall stand Henceforward in thy shadow.

Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day.

I am very well and shall be better for the change, though Robert is dreadfully afraid, as usual, that I shall fall to pieces at the first motion....

I was quite frightened about the effect of Wilson's leaving him. We managed to prepare him as well as we could, and when he found she was actually gone, the passion of grief I had feared was just escaped. He struggled with himself, the eyes full of tears, and the lips quivering, but there was not any screaming and crying such as made me cry last year on a like occasion. He had made up his mind.

In that expression, Dust glimpsed the woman she had not been, the woman whose body she now inhabited.

All things end, but this had been a healthy and happy part of my life, much better than the bit before.

Yes, surely that was a disruption. But it was not even remotely the whole story.

There's an eagle feather in my pocket and resolution like a fist clenching my chest and on some deep level I'm dead happy I don't know what comes next.