Quotes About Transition

Summer heat, the first early morning of it…step out and suddenly notice this: summer arrives, has arrived, is arriving. Birds grow less than leaves although they cheep, dip, arc.

Las cosas que terminan dan paz y las cosas que no cambian comienzan a concluirse, están siempre concluyéndose. Lo terrible es la esperanza.

Ela sabia que naquele momento não havia criança mais ali. Todos eram grandes, grandes e tristes, ceando a mesma tristeza aos pedaços.

El pajarito fue hecho por Dios para ayudar a las criaturas a descubrir las cosas. Después, cuando el niño ya no lo necesita más, devuelve el pajarito a Dios. Y Dios lo coloca en otro niño inteligente como tú. ¿No es lindo eso?

Nada de lo que el hombre ha sido, es o será, lo ha sido, lo es ni lo será de una vez para siempre, sino que ha llegado a serlo un buen día y otro buen día dejará de serlo.

To remain in the past means to be dead.

En la vida se es actor o público, timonel o galeote. Es tan doloroso pasar del timón al remo, como salir del escenario para ocupar una butaca, aunque ésta sea de primera fila. El que ha conocido el aplauso no sabe resignarse a la oscuridad; ésa es la parte más cruel de toda preeminencia fundada en el capricho ajeno o en aptitudes físicas transitorias.

El gran puente, el asunto de mi cabeza y los redobles que se van acercando a mi morada, después no sé lo que pasó, pero ahora es medianoche, y estoy atravesando lo que mi corazón siente como un gran puente.

The gods are leaving.

The sword must yield to the toga, Cicero had told the Roman Senate, and the friars in the Philippines thought a cassock was as good as a toga. But

At first we got along real well. Now... it's pretty much just a professional relationship.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

El miedo al cambio social fue desde el principio la base de la solidaridad de «Occidente».

There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents, each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.

You must give up the life you planned in order to have the life that is waiting for you.

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

Be less than what you are so that you can become more.

Sometimes, when something bad leaves the world, something good enters in its place. I've seen it happen before . - Mam

Death borders upon our birth, and our cradle stands in the grave.

Don't forget, and don't let your reader forget, that the small world in which you have held him for the last hour or two hasn't ended. Be aware, and make him aware, that tomorrow all of its remaining inhabitants will pick up the broken fragments of their lives, and carry on.

It happens to everyone and it happens fast.

From now on," he said, "I'm through catching planes." To the beat of their heels on the massive old planks, he almost started whistling in the rain.