Quotes About Transition

Energy is neither created nor destroyed. It just changes shape.

Sometimes something comes along and tears your roots right out the ground, and that's when you know you been planted too long.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

I had the sense that cities were yielding, that they moved over and made room.

Girls are caterpillars while they live in the world, to be finally butterflies when the summer comes

We all have to find our own ways to say good-bye.

A man doesn't think of change when he is ignorant of any alternative.

It was the beginning of the end. Or perhaps, it was only the end of something that was never meant to begin.

Sometimes people change, said a voice inside him. And sometimes they don't.

And to all of the challenges and rewards of my new life.

And Tomlinson found this in the Times right before I left to come here." Windham

Do you leave as a ship sailing out of harbour? Do you return as rain to the earth? Will I guide you in the Beyond, if I hold aloft the brightest light here on Earth?

Anthropologist Victor Turner writes that we are most free to explore identity in places outside of our normal routines, places that are in some way "betwixt and between." Turner calls them liminal, from the Latin word for "threshold.

The inability to move from one phase of life and change one's self-identity is, "the anxiety of always.

There is a rich literature on how to break out of quandary thinking. It suggests that sometimes it helps to turn from the abstract to the concrete.

Meetings are performances of what meetings used to be

be in Carrie's care down the road. For the first time Carrie was starting to

felt empty, just as they did when Dani climbed out of them

reasons that one generation must give way to the next, as made clear in another of the letters Jefferson wrote to the equally venerable John Adams near the end of his life: "There is a ripeness of time for death, regarding others as well as ourselves, when it is reasonable we should drop off, and make room for another growth. When we have lived our generation out, we should not wish to encroach on another.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood.

Günümüzde, kasabas?ndaki bir dükkân?n sobas?n?n yan?nda dikilen bir çiftçinin zihni baÅŸkalar?n?n söylemleriyle dolup ta??yor. Onun zihnini böylesi dolduranlar ise gazeteler ve dergiler. Ä°çinde bir tür güzel, çocuksu masumiyetin de bar?nd??? eski kara cehaletin büyük bir k?sm? sonsuza kadar yok oldu.

I am becoming old and queer.

Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.

One doesn't lose a self, like a pair of gloves or a pine. We learn and change, or we harden into stone.