Quotes About Transition

I don't usually play games. I got added to one and was played.When I realize the creator I will be the coach, now that I've mastered the game.

There are some moments in life we all have to face, even though we don't want to.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about. I know firsthand:

I was born with the horse and buggy. I die with the space shuttle. What kind of thing is that?" His eyes twinkled. "I live the good life!

Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.

You cannot expect the guy who drove the car into the ditch to navigate it out of the ditch. You have to put a new driver in the seat. I'm not saying the new driver is going to be any better, but we need a new driver. Kerry is the only choice.

As the blood of the Earth runs dry, a great many assumptions at the core of the modern project are going to have to be discarded. The toolkit of magic is one of the few available options we've got to make that difficult transition a little easier, and to begin making sense of a future that has not yet even begun to darken the dreams of most of today's humanity.

At last he rose, and twitch'd his mantle blue:Tomorrow to fresh woods and pastures new.

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.

Wherever man has left his footprint in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization we will find the hoofprint of the horse beside it.

Between every two pines is a doorway to a new world.

That which begins will also end.

This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let The wire brush of doubt Scrape from your heart All sense of yourself And your hesitant light. If you remain generous, Time will come good; And you will find your feet Again on fresh pastures of promise, Where the air will be kind And blushed with beginning.

And when the work of grieving is done, The wound of loss will heal And you will have learned To wean your eyes From that gap in the air And be able to enter the hearth In your soul where your loved one Has awaited your return All the time.

America may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization.

It was now about eleven o'clock of a fine mid-September morning, with the sun warm but away from the sun a warning hint of the nippy weather to come.

Aging changes your relationship with history.

We had it all. Life was perfect. And then life changed. It always does. When life changes in this way, we can beg and plead to go back to the way things were. Feeling entitled to that reality. Waiting for someone to wave the magic wand and put things back to normal; back to the way life was. Or we can step up, recognize that it is time to move forward from here, and embrace total accountability.

Men are not so weak as you think. They can always leave anybody or any place without a pang - if they find another person or another place they like better. If they feel pricks and scruples it is merely because they cannot make up their mind that the change will be absolutely to their advantage.

Alison's mummy and I took one look at each other, and from then on the age of chivalry was dead.

You have lost nothing that matters. You have everything you need. Everything before leads up to now and now leads to what shall be.

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transformation is a process, not an event

Tradition dies a hard death. Culture changes with as much difficulty in penguin colonies as in human colonies. But with this colony, culture did change.