Quotes About Transition

Great ages and great individuals have arisen from the breakdown of a rigid system: the rigid system has given the necessary discipline and coherence, while its breakdown has releaed the necessary energy. (...) No doubt the ideal is a certain rigidity of action plus a certain plasticity of thought, but this is diffcult to achieve in practice except during brief transitional periods.

It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion.

Ä°nsanl???n bir alt?n ça??n eÅŸiÄŸinde olmas? olas?; fakat eÄŸer öyleyse, önce kap?y? koruyan ejderhay? katletmek gerekecek, bu ejderha da dindir.

Sin duda el ideal es una cierta rigidez de acción, más una cierta flexibilidad de pensamiento, pero esto es difícil de lograr en la práctica excepto durante los breves períodos de transición. Y parece probable que, si las viejas ortodoxias decaen, surjan nuevos códigos rígidos según las necesidades del conflicto.

We are at the present day passing through a somewhat confused period, when many people have thrown over the old standards without acquiring new ones.

Throughout the long period of religious doubt, I had been rendered very unhappy by the gradual loss of belief, but when the process was completed, I found to my surprise that I was quite glad to be done with the whole subject.

Has my mother not always told me that when one door closes another opens?

A woman raises her bairns, and then no matter how much she loves them, she must let them go on to live their own lives.

Life had a different shape; it had new branches and some of the old branches were dead. It had followed the constant pattern of discard and growth that all lives follow.

All the pieces are put together, and the whole is yours …' A word grows to a thought — a thought to an idea — an idea to an act. The change is slow, and the Present is a sluggish traveller loafing in the path Tomorrow wants to take.

Change is often perceived as chaos and not always won peacefully.

Have you told anyone?" asked Kara. "Your parents?" "Not yet," said Maddy. "I wanted to finish this first. I had to." "Yeah," said August. "If I had something like that hanging around my gut, I'd want to get it out too. It's like the end of the world." "And the beginning," said Maddy.

When a chapter of your Life Book is complete, your spirit knows its time to turn the page so a new chapter can begin. Even when you're scared or think you're not ready your spirit knows you are.

Life is full of change, honey. That's how we learn and grow. When we're born, the Good Lord gives each of us a Life Book. Chapter by chapter, we live and learn... When a chapter of your Life Book is complete, your spirit knows it's time to turn the page so a new chapter can begin. Even when you're scared or think you're not ready, your spirit knows you are.

Sometimes it's not what we hold on to that shapes our lives--it's what we're willing to let go of.

God is thoroughly committed to finishing the masterpiece He started in us. And that process means one major thing: change.

we're leaving Gilgal with a lighter wardrobe than we wore there. It's high time some of us traded a spirit of heaviness for a garment of praise. Our next stop in the Promised

There is some level on which this life must occasionally become repugnant and unappetizing to you and you must step back from it. And then you have a new relationship with it, and then you step back into it from a different angle - with a new appetite - and then you find the next leg of your journey.

After having grown the brand and elevating the overall reputation of TFC both at home and abroad, it seems I no longer serve a purpose.

For me, I had that reputation as being a guy that did a lot of stuff early on in my career, but to me, at the time I needed to do that in order to be noticed. Eventually, my style evolved and started making it to where every match wasn't about a dive outside of the ring.

Even though I started out at right-back, I actually enjoy the contrast of playing both at full-back and in midfield. Both require physical attributes and a lot of energy.

The question we face today is: What are we going to do when the coal is gone? And make no mistake it's going. No one has given us an answer that doesn't require the sacrifice of our health and our environment.

Something that required the best of you has ended. You will miss it.

When I turned 11, we had to leave East Germany overnight because of the political orientation of my father. Now I was going to school in West Germany, which was American-occupied at that time. There in school, all children were required to learn English and not Russian. To learn Russian had been difficult, but English was impossible for me.