Quotes About Transition

Look around. It's almost gone. If only someone had told me that before. About life. If only I had understood.

How scary and sudden the shift from Living to Dead.

People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.

There's no human way to get to it, not even with all the dynamite in the world. So you leave it at that. And you move on.

Grab what you can and fight your way to a lifeboat.' Everyone associated with the slow printed word is fast becoming the Great Crested Newt of the culture. First it was the poets, the playwrights, then the novelists. Veteran newspapermen are next.

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

I had so many professions before. I didn't want to do this particularly. It just happened.

With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.

As for me, I sealed my act of rebellion against my mother's dictatorship by smoking the cigarette I'd stolen from my uncle two weeks earlier. Kofff! Kofff! Kofff!!! It was awful. But this was not the moment to give in. With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.

Nothing's worse than saying goodbye. It's a little like dying.

The invitations to the New Year's Eve party at the American embassy in Saigon would read, "Come see the light at the end of the tunnel.

increasingly, they did not really know each other. The constant toll of death and injury, in addition to the policy of rotating marines out promptly when their thirteen months up, meant that squads were always changing. There was no such thing as unit cohesion.

Nothing characterizes successful organizations more than their willingness to abandon what made them successful.

And then we ease him out of that worn-out body with a kiss, and he's gone like a whisper, the easiest breath.

This is the entrance To the city of you...

My pregnant wife came home with her previously long hair that I loved chopped off and replaced with a short, mommish haircut. She asked what I thought and could tell by my face. She had put a mom's need for convenience before being a wife. She wept.

Death is not extinguishing the light. It is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

When Jack was returning to America from his years in Thailand, he sought out an elderly Western monk and asked him if he had any advice about being back in the West. "Only one thing," said the monk. "When you're running to catch the subway and you see it leaving without you, don't panic, just remember, 'There's always another train.

The transitional object—the teddy bear, stuffed animal, blanket, or favorite toy—makes possible the movement from a purely subjective experience to one in which other people are experienced as truly "other." Neither "me" nor "not-me," the transitional object enjoys a special in-between status that the parents instinctively respect. It is the raft by which the infant crosses over to the understanding of the other.

impermanence is the inescapable flavor of worldly life.

everything had changed but nothing was altered.

I know that what's done Ã¢â'¬Â¦ is done. No sense living in the past. The only way for me is forward. Always forward.

Then he asked if I didn't like things changing. And I said I wouldn't mind things changing if I became an astronaut, for example, which is one of the biggest changes you can imagine, apart from becoming a girl or dying.

Time is only the relationship between the different things changing