Quotes About Transition

When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has been opened.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops? If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.

Marriage is the sunset of love.

Love may turn to indifference with possession.

You find new love not to forget the past love. But you forget the past because of that new love.

Always been a big heavy metal fan. I remember being 15 saying, Dude I'm going to love heavy metal forever. Heavy metal til I'm 60. I'm 35 now. I think I'm going to give it one more year.

But that is not the way the world works, because the world didn't care what she did last year, or last month, or even earlier tonight when she had bravely tried to read three sentences. If the world is feeling super charitable, it might take a passing glance at what you are doing now. What matters is what you are doing next. And high school was nothing if not about the next box you had to check.

As Stevie stepped outside, the cold air slapped her in the face. The magnificent cloak of reds and golds that hung from the Vermont woodland had dropped suddenly, like a massive act of arboreal striptease. Striptease. Strip trees. Striptrees? God, she was tired.

She went from feeling completely connected to him and swimming in the warm waters of happy hormones, to a cold, frightened feeling.

Change a man's opinions and his nature will soon learn to express itself through the new medium.

I have nothing now but praise for my life. I'm not unhappy. I cry a lot because I miss people. They die and I can't stop them. They leave me and I love them more. ... What I dread is the isolation. ... There are so many beautiful things in the world which I will have to leave when I die, but I'm ready, I'm ready, I'm ready.

La verdadera vida de Carmela acababa de comenzar y ella no tenía dudas de lo que eso comportaba. Permanecería muda y expectante entre los poderosos y los extraños. Nadaría como un pececillo y aprendería a respirar bajo el agua.

and Chelsea boots, and moved

It was funny how as soon as you knew there was something better, what you had seemed unbearable.

Youth is a very good thing to possess, no doubt; but it is a tiresome setting for maturity.

A lot less energy to convert animal into animal than vegetable into animal. And the brain boost we got from that bonanza. Tools, language, cooperation. You can see the incentive for all the advances that make us human. More meat. Bigger brains. Bigger brains. More meat. I wonder what it looked like, when we first tasted fresh blood. What did we think? What did we feel? That moment when everything changed. From scavenger to predator. Hunted to hunter.

Those poor bastards didn't want a rural life. They expected an urban life in a rural setting. They tried to adapt their environment instead of adapting to it.

Baa," said little Rainy, now a full-size sheep. They grow up so fast.

Ich glaube, ich werde älter; so jung schon fängt das an.

Racetracks close at the end of the day. Once in a great while, a stock market venture of yours might end when a company in which you've invested is absorbed by a bigger company and passes out of existence. But most of the time you will be required to call your own endings.

Americans live in a twilight world between a sense of loss and a sense of resigned acceptance.

May you live in such a way that your death is just the beginning of your life.

No more Bethesda for you. No more waking up and going to sleep in the same mess. God dismantled the neutral gear from your transmission. He is the God of forward motion, the God of tomorrow. He is ready to write a new chapter in your biography.