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• Transition is always a relief. Destination means death to me. If I could figure out a way to remain forever in transition, in the disconnected and unfamiliar, I could remain in a state of perpetual freedom.

  David Wojnarowicz

  Mean, Forever, Relief

  David Wojnarowicz (1994). “David Wojnarowicz: brush fires in the social landscape”

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• I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable.

  Mark Twain

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Would Be

  Mark Twain, Bob Blaisdell (2013). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• At last she shut the book sharply, lay back, and drew a deep breath, expressive of the wonder which always marks the transition from the imaginary world to the real world.

  Virginia Woolf

  Real, Book, World

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.114, Delphi Classics

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• Our moral responsibility is not to stop future, but to shape it...to channel our destiny in humane directions and to ease the trauma of transition.

  Alvin Toffler

  Future, Responsibility, Destiny

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• For many people a job is more than an income - it's an important part of who we are. So a career transition of any sort is one of the most unsettling experiences you can face in your life.

  Paul Clitheroe

  Change, Jobs, Life Changing

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• A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Years, America

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• What is most important of this grand experiment, the United States? Not the election of the first president but the election of its second president. The peaceful transition of power is what will separate this country from every other country in the world.

  George Washington

  Country, Peaceful, Important

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• The transition from tenseness, self-responsibility, and worry, to equanimity, receptivity, and peace, is the most wonderful of all those shiftings of inner equilibrium, those changes of personal centre of energy, which I have analyzed so often; and the chief wonder of it is that it so often comes about, not by doing, but by simply relaxing and throwing the burden down.

  William James

  Responsibility, Self, Worry

  "The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature". Book by William James, 1902.

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• In the hero stories, the call to go on a journey takes the form of a loss, an error, a wound, an unexplainable longing, or a sense of a mission. When any of these happens to us, we are being summoned to make a transition. It will always mean leaving something behind,...The paradox here is that loss is a path to gain.

  David Richo

  Hero, Mean, Loss

  David Richo (2014). “How to Be an Adult: A Handbook on Psychological and Spiritual Integration”, p.17, Paulist Press

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• The best performance improvement is the transition from the nonworking state to the working state.

  John Ousterhout

  Inspirational, Improvement, States

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• When Things Fall Apart” and I quote “Life is a good teacher and a good friend. Things are always in transition, if we could only realize it.  Nothing ever sums itself up in the way that we like to dream about. The off-center, in-between state is an ideal situation, a situation in which we don't get caught and we can open our hearts and minds beyond limit. It's a very tender, nonaggressive, open-ended state of affairs.

  Pema Chodron

  Dream, Hope, Teacher

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• Our crisis is a birth. We are one living system and we have come to the limit of one phase of natural growth on a finite planet We must learn ethical evolution quickly As we seek to facilitate a gentle birth, a graceful and nonviolent transition to the next stage of our evolution, we will discover a natural pattern, a design of our birth transition, and develop a plan to cooperate with this design.

  Barbara Marx Hubbard

  Design, Growth, Phases

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• When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God, why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn't just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.

  Wilma Rudolph

  Winning, Gold, Three

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• Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most. In the routine of life, we often take our families-our parents and children and siblings-for granted. But in times of danger and need and change, there is no question that what we care about most is our families! It will be even more so when we leave this life and enter into the spirit world. Surely the first people we will seek to find there will be father, mother, spouse, children, and siblings.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Children, Father

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• The transition strategies are more important than understanding what the outcome state will be.

  Sean Parker

  Entrepreneur, Understanding, Important

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• The only hope for developing a new civilization is to accept responsibility for improving our lives through knowledge, understanding, and a deeper comprehension of humanity’s relationship to natural processes of evolution. Our future is determined by effort we put forth to achieve this transition.

  Jacque Fresco

  Responsibility, Civilization, Effort

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• Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Life, Spirit, Energizing

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.413, Library of America

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• This journey then, is nothing more, yet nothing less than a period of acclimating to a new way of seeing, a time of transition and revelation as it gradually comes upon "that" which remains when there is no self. this is not a journey for those who expect love and bliss, rather, it is for the hardy who have been tried by fire and have come to rest in a tough, immovable trust in "that" which lies beyond the known, beyond the self, beyond union and even beyond love and trust itself

  Bernadette Roberts

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.

  William Bridges

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running.

  Amby Burfoot

  Running, True Joy, Appreciate

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• I had big shoes to fill, but the way we have been playing has made the transition easy.

  Ricky Ponting

  Shoes, Way, Easy

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If we do nothing, we still get to a post-carbon future, but it will be bleak. However, if we plan the transition, we can have a world that supports robust communities of healthy, creative people and ecosystems with millions of other species.

  Richard Heinberg

  Ecosystems, People, Support

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• I realized that I had died and been reborn numberless times but just didn't remember because the transitions from life to death and back are so ghostly easy, a magical action for naught, like falling asleep and waking up again a million times, the utter casualness and deep ignorance of it.

  Jack Kerouac

  Death, Fall, Ignorance

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• About 90 percent of all soy is genetically modified (GMO). Soy is also one of the top seven allergens, and is widely known to cause immediate hypersensitivity reactions. While in the last forty years soy has occupied an important place in the transition from an unhealthy meat-based diet to vegetarian and vegan cuisine, it is time for us to upgrade our food choice to one having more benefits, and fewer negative possibilities. In 1986, Stuart Berger, MD, placed soy among the seven top allergens - one of the "sinister seven." At the time, most experts listed soy around tenth or eleventh.

  Gabriel Cousens

  Years, Gmos, Choices

  Gabriel Cousens (2007). “There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program”, p.179, North Atlantic Books

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• I use the echo effect a lot when I DJ because it allows for smooth transitions, especially at different BPMs. It also adds a studio quality to live DJ performances.

  DJ Jazzy Jeff

  Echoes, Quality, Use

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