Quotes About Transition

As we go to the places where we are called by God—sometimes gladly, sometimes reluctantly, always in anxiety—we are drawn into the newness of God's future.

Because if you cling excessively to the past, you will miss the newness being enacted before your very eyes.

I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

It's easier to change what you do than people think it is. If you don't change, your field changes around you.

Death to them was not an end, but a beginning, a passage into eternal life.

Propelled by violas and stinging electric guitar, presto followed andante, and so to finale.

We are unsettled to the very roots of our being. There isn't a human relation, whether of parent and child, husband and wife, worker and employer, that doesn't move in a strange direction. We don't know how to behave when personal contact and eternal authority have disappeared. There are no precedents to guide us, no wisdom that wasn't made for a simpler age. We have changed our environment faster than we can change ourselves.

Overriding everything else, the Titanic also marked the end of a general feeling of confidence.

Before the Titanic, all was quiet. Afterward all was tumult. That is why, to anybody who lived at the time, the Titanic more than any other single event marks the end of the old days, and the beginning of a new, uneasy era.

The Titanic somehow lowered the curtain on this way of living. It never was the same again. First the war, then the income tax, made sure of that.

I better stop thinking in this manner, or before I know where I am I'll be bursting into tears, and it's a nice thing getting homesick before you even leave a place at all, so it is.

I simply wasn't born to remain in the same place for evermore...

Mein Freund erkannte tatsächlich, daß es so nicht weiterging, wenn er nicht in einer Zwangsjacke enden wollte. Er sah ein, daß er sich mehr den weltlichen Dingen zuwenden mußte. Also verließ er seine Wahngebäude, ließ sie zu wunderschönen Ruinen verfallen, die er nur noch selten aufsuchte. Und er konzentrierte sich nun auf das, was ihn umgab.

vast amount of preparation, really, to arrive at the innocuously brief moment of decisive action: the cut—the moment of transition from one shot to the next—something that, appropriately enough, should look almost self-evidently simple and effortless, if it is even noticed at all.

Las grandes decisiones siempre conllevan dolor, desorganización y perturbación.

Todo fluye, todo cambia, todo nace y muere, nada permanece, todo se diluye; lo que tiene principio tiene fin, lo nacido muere y lo compuesto se descompone. Todo es transitorio, insustancial y, por tanto, insatisfactorio. No hay nada fijo de qué aferrarse».

Absence and death are the same -- only that in death there is no suffering.

The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

Death — the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening.

When dark December glooms the day, And takes our autumn joys away...

Is death the last sleep? No, it is the last and final awakening.

Even at the end of the road, there is a road. Even at the end of the road, a new road stretches out, limitless and open, a road that may lead anywhere. To him who will find it, there is always a road.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

side of his head, over the bald spot, to the other.