Quotes About Transition

As feminist scholar Carol Christ points out, "Symbol systems cannot simply be rejected, they must be replaced. Where there is no replacement, the mind will revert to familiar structures at times of crisis, bafflement, or defeat.

You don't have to be a black-flag-waving anarchist to be outraged by this shortsightedness. Anyone who loves capitalism should be especially maddened—-because solutions and alternative sources of energy do exist that could enable us to transition swiftly from our fossil-fuel-based economy to one that runs on clean, renewable energy sources that don't contribute to global warming.

The process of cultural change is a long and difficult one.

Incontrarsi e separarsi è il movimento unico e necessario con cui si traccia il nostro passaggio nel vuoto.

Ho pensato: quando una donna ti fa cambiare vita è roba da ridere, ma quando ti fa cambiare la squadra di calcio del cuore, la situazione è seria.

What we knew is dead, and maybe the greatest part of what we were is dead. What's out there is new and perhaps good, but it's nothing we know.

If you've ever tried to alter your own marital patterns you know that change doesn't happen overnight. In history, as in personal life, there are very few moments or events that mark a complete turning point. It takes a long time for ideas to filter through different social groups. Typically, individuals adopt only a few new behaviors at any one time, and old habits hang on long after most people have agreed they should be dropped.

if you haven't had to you won't ever understand how brutal how ugly how devastating it is to leave or that it would have been worse to stay

All you know is you must change sail to catch it.

But in dying so suddenly her mother had become a riddle at the gate instead of the road you walked to get there.

The squid are leaving, Maura…

Even now the blind scalpels of evolution took raw material adapted for a vanished world, and cut and shaped it for the conditions of the new.

Something had changed. History resumed.

I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are going to grow up someday. And all of those little kids are going to do the things that we do. And they will all kiss someone someday. But for now, sledding is enough. I think it would be great if sledding were always enough, but it isn't.

It's strange how things can change back as suddenly as they changed originally. When one thing happens and suddenly, things are back to normal.

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

And things were back to normal except we were just friends.

the juniors were acting different because they are now the seniors. They even had T-shirts made. I don't know who plans these things.

Things get worse before they get better, but this is a worse that feels too big.

but because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

It suddenly dawned on me that if Michael were still around, Susan probably wouldn't be going out with him anymore. Not because she's a bad person or shallow or mean. But because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

And I know things have to get worse before they get better.

Things get worse before they get better.

It was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.