Quotes About Transition

THERE IS A special sadness in achievement, in the knowledge that a long-desired goal has been attained at last, and that life must now be shaped towards new ends. Alvin knew that sadness as he wandered alone through the forests and fields of Lys. Not even Hilvar accompanied him, for there are times when a man must be apart even from his closest friends. He

There is but one step from the grotesque to the horrible

I am a man who am slow to change; and, if you take away from me the faith that I have been taught, it would be long ere I could learn one to set in its place. It is but a chip here and a chip there, yet it may bring the tree down in time.

Relationships are never static. They have to evolve over time as the individuals in them change.

I thought we'd be a family always, but sometimes life doesn't work out the way we expect. When it doesn't, we just have to accept it and make the best of things.

Our children grow old and elbow us into the grave.

It's not the way it used to be... people ain't the way they used to be.

Anything which begins new and fresh will finally become old and silly.

The reassuring bulk of the college buildings showed ahead of her, and she looked fondly up at them and smiled. As she had never been before, she was now alone, and grown-up, and powerful, and not at all afraid.

Change layover the stairs and the kitchen and the garden like fog.

Now what was here, she wondered, what was here and is gone, or what was going to be here and never came?

Maybe you'll get onto the other side of that mirror in the new clean world. Maybe you'll look through from the other side and see this world again and go around crying that you wish some big thing would happen and wipe out that one and send you back here. Like I keep trying to tell you, it doesn't matter which world you're in.

Era una sconosciuta in un mondo di sconosciuti ed erano sconosciuti anche quelli che si era lasciata alle spalle.

Someday change will be accepted as life itself

Pain was nothing but resistance; resistance to the God energy caused by fear. Without fear and resistance, death would simply be a transition to another dimension.

There will always be a door to the light.

Yes, Berel-Ayzik, what you say is all very well and good. But just tell us one more thing. Do they die in America like they do here? Or do they live forever?

Like they say: one window pane goes, another comes in its place.

Come to think of it—what are we going to do with our old cantor? We just got a new one, you know. We needed him like a hole in the head.

You see, I come from Mezritch, though I grew up in Mazapevke, but Vorotolivke is where I'm still registered.

Time goes from present to past.

Three hundred years later, the van came to a stop.

Everything passes. Nothing is forever. Least of all love. Cameron

It was as though her emotions had been worn out. She went from hatred to anger and, finally, to a resigned acceptance.