Quotes about Transition
I didn't know that this was the moment in time and the place where I was leaving my mother and Tzipora forever.
- Elie Wiesel
Here, take this knife," he said. "I won't need it anymore. You may find it useful. Also take this spoon. Don't sell it. Quickly! Go ahead, take what I'm giving you!" My inheritance …
- Elie Wiesel
A missionary plods through the first year or two, thinking that things will be different when he speaks the language. He is baffled to find, frequently, that they are not.
- Elisabeth Elliot
And yet I know that in her death, she has found the freedom she could not find in life. She is no longer confined to a room, a bed, and a body that no longer works.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Dying is something we human beings do continuously, not just at the end of our physical lives on this earth.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
And slowly answer'd Arthur from the barge:The old order changeth, yielding place to new;And God fulfills himself in many ways,Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Ring out the old, ring in the new,Ring, happy bells, across the snow:The year is going, let him go;Ring out the false, ring in the true.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
I hope to see my Pilot face to faceWhen I have crossed the bar.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
Sometimes the right thing feels all wrong until it is over and done with.
- Alice Hoffman
Even as I hold you, I am letting you go.
- Alice Walker
Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation.
- Alain de Botton
He is now rising from affluence to poverty.
- Mark Twain