Quotes About Transitions

Life is made up of meetings and partings. People come into your life everyday, you say good morning, you say good evening, some stay for a few minutes, some stay for a few months, some a year, others a whole lifetime. No matter who it is, you meet and then you part.

It's like the piano and the cello are being poured into my body, the same way the IV and blood transfusions are. And the memories of my life as it was, and the flashes of it as it might be, are coming so fast and furious. I feel like I can no longer keep up with them but they keep coming and everything is colliding, until I cannot take anymore. Until I cannot be like this a second longer.

Happiness is a way station between too little and too much.

I find when I'm more awake, I tend to think more of the structure and movement of a tune, abrupt transitions, etc.; things becoming more composed.

Man's feelings are always purest and most glowing in the hour of meeting and of farewell.

Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything is the same.

Besides, interesting things happen along borders—transitions—not in the middle where everything is the same. There may be something happening along the border of the crowd, back where the lights fade into the shade of the overpass.

Energy conversions are the very basis of life and evolution. Modern history can be seen as an unusually rapid sequence of transitions to new energy sources, and the modern world is the cumulative result of their conversions.

Most employers see breaks in employment as a blemish on a resume. In the case of military spouses, however, it's due to their frequent moves.

My narrative may be invaded by inaccuracy and confusion; but if I live no longer, I will, at least, live to complete it. What but ambiguities, abruptnesses, and dark transitions, can be expected from the historian who is, at the same time, the sufferer of these disasters?

Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together,

Part of the reason why we feel these transitions so keenly is that we know that our lives matter.

It is the hour of departure, the hard cold hour which the night fastens to all timetables.

Energy transitions are not new. They have been going on for a long time and unfold over time. Previous energy transitions have primarily been driven by technology, economics, environmental considerations, and convenience and ease. The current one has politics, policy, and activism more mixed in.

As you get older, there are different types of roles in people's lives at certain ages.

three situations that deserve punctuation: transitions, milestones, and pits.

To think in moments is to be attuned to transitions and milestones

What's indisputable is that when we assess our experiences, we don't average our minute-by-minute sensations. Rather, we tend to remember flagship moments: the peaks, the pits, and the transitions.

peaks can also be used to mark transitions. (Think weddings and graduations.)

Transitions should be marked, milestones commemorated, and pits filled. That's the essence of thinking in moments.

in a hypermedia-based design, resources don't matter as much. The designer's job is to identify all the state transitions.

He cried the relief he felt at finally seeing the pattern, the way all the stories fit together—the old stories, the war stories, their stories—to become the story that was still being told. He was not crazy; he had never been crazy. He had only seen and heard the world as it always was: no boundaries, only transitions through all distances and time.

There are three terrible ages of childhood - 1 to 10, 10 to 20, and 20 to 30.

On the surface, I seem to be glad of new people; But doomed to leave old friends behind me, I cry out from my heart for Shin-Fêng wine To melt away my thousand woes.