Quotes About Transition

What Frost makes clear in his poem is that the act of choosing is the most important thing. The act of moving forward is what matters. He might have chosen either teaching or poetry. But he had to choose one or the other. He looked long down each path. He understood the loss involved—the cutting off of possibilities. He saw clearly that options once discarded are usually gone forever. Way leads on to way. But Krishsna writes: Concerning one's dharma, one should not vacillate!

A tendency that's run through your family for generations can stop with you. You're a transition person – a link between past and future. And your own change can affect many, many lives downstream.

The youth perceived that the time had come. He was about to be measured. For a moment he felt in the face of his great trial like a babe, and the flesh over his heart seemed very thin.

He had been a mere man railing at a condition, but now he was out of it and could see that it had been very proper and just. It had been necessary for him to swallow swords that he might have a better throat for grapes.

Like this week." "So you're Carl's replacement?" "I guess you could say that.

Isn't joy a kind of stillness at the top of something, before the long falling?

In fact, he had become an it, and those of us who knew him noted how poorly itness suited him, his pale demeanor resembling nothing he'd been.

One day he just found himself opening the door, allowing the inevitable. The world came in and filled the room. It seemed so familiar with everything.

She'd seen her best friends disappear into their marriages. Even when she spoke on the phone to them, they weren't there.

The replacements, eighteen-and nineteen-year-olds fresh from the States, were wide-eyed. Although the veterans were only a year or two older, they looked terrifying to the recruits.

here we are, without our families, totally out of our heads, and we don't know where on earth we are. That was the feeling of the early seventies—nobody knew where they were.

If you have been, I'm glad you've stopped.

I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.

Hermes, the Psychopomp.

From hero to zero is a tired phrase today

I had an honest, ordered, respectable and unexciting life to look forward to. I had sown my wild oats and it was time to grow sage. Or so I imagined.

We hold on STEVE's still smiling face as MICHAEL passes by. STEVE's eyes follow MICHAEL out of the room and then the smile disappears. It is replaced by a look of hunger and desolation.

And, if I'm to be honest here, yes, I did indeed stop trying, finally. But the body breathes whether you want it to or not. The heart keeps beating. Perhaps because it knows more than you do--knows that, past this experience, a whole new life will open up, and whatever infirmities persist, they can be dealt with one by one.

That's how they were supposed to be. It's what they, at fifteen, were supposed to have been doing. They'd been fired into adolescence and were swerving to each side now like crazy, trying to find the straight and narrow.

We must not fear change. We need to make it work to our advantage.

the darkness, however, there are quiet changes.

Ne olduÄŸumuzu geçmiÅŸimiz söyler; o olmadan kimliÄŸimizi kaybederiz.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

Algunas transformaciones son manifiestas y heroicas; otras son tranquilas y sin acontecimientos notables en su devenir, pero no menos importantes en su resultado.