Quotes About Transition

It is absurd to assume that the new political societies emerging in the East will be copies of the societies we know in the West.

I find it a hard matter to settle to business after so much leisure and pleasure.

Most people here have spent most of their time someplace else. You learn

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city...you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn't even know were there. Everything changes.

She is not sent away, but only sent before, like unto a star, which, going out of your sight, doth not die and vanish, but shineth in another hemisphere: ye see her not yet, she doth shine in another country.

Ignorance seldom vaults into knowledge, but passes into it through an intermediate state of obscurity, even as night into day through twilight.

The sun's rim dips, the stars rush out:At one stride comes the dark;With far-heard whisper o'er the seaOff shot the specter bark.

Each moment of life is a step toward death.

I gave my life to learning how to live. Now that I have organized it all... It is just about over.

So there that poor little stick is, caught up in a swirlin' eddy, spinnin' and spinnin' until it's sure it's gonna be stuck in that one spot forever. But then a most amazing thing happens. For no reason that anyone can really be sure of, the water spits that little stick right out of that stuck place and off it goes, floatin' on down the river to find new adventures.

Right now you're swirlin' in a sad eddy, but you ain't gonna stay stuck in that place forever. Sooner of later, somethin's gonna happen to spit you out of it.

Part of dealing with the sense of being cut off - for both the one dying and the one bereaved - is acknowledging that though a vital part of life has changed dramatically, all relationships (with friends, even with you, perhaps) have not.

We did it, Mom! I knew we'd pull it off," Emma said as she shared her scrambled eggs with Halo the next morning at breakfast. Since they'd moved back to Wisconsin, Halo had become a bona fide Midwesterner, preferring mashed potatoes and scrambled eggs to seeds or fruits.

Disappointments are just changed appointments.

A wise man takes a step at a time; he establishes one foot before he takes up the other: an old place should not be forsaken recklessly.

Nothing remains the same. Everything moves on in the end. Even us. Death is nothing more than another change.

I've one foot in the grave and the other on a bar of soap.

Orang bergerak menyusuri waktu yang diciptakannya sendiri agar merasa bisa beranjak dari satu tempat ke tempat lain. Bahkan meskipun diam saja di tempat yang sama, orang bisa merasa bergeser ke tempat lain karena waktu membawanya ke sana.

Dying shouldn't be so hard," he said. "It shouldn't be harder than living.

She wasn't healing, that was the wrong word. She was coming to terms with loss.

Saturn Return is where you reconcile the parts of your life that you've chosen with the parts where you've let yourself get carried away.

Although there are times I'd give anything to have her back, I'm glad she went first. Losing her was like being cleft down the middle. It was the moment it all ended for me, and I wouldn't have wanted her to go through that.

What else do I have to offer? Nothing happens to me anymore. That's the reality of getting old, and I guess that's really the crux of the matter. I'm not ready to be old yet.

Everything was something else before and will be something else after.