There is not any present moment that is unconnected with some future one. The life of every man is a continued chain of incidents,... each link of which hangs upon the former. The transition from cause to effect, from event to event, is often carried on by secret steps, which our foresight cannot divine, and our sagacity is unable to trace. Evil may at some future period bring forth good; and good may bring forth evil, both equally unexpected.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Without our being especially conscious of the transition, the word "parent" has gradually come to be used as much as a verb as a n...oun. Whereas we formerly thought mainly about "being a parent," we now find ourselves talking about learning how "to parent." . . . It suggests that we may now be concentrating on action rather than status, on what we do rather than what or who we are.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every thing teaches transition, transference, metamorphosis: therein is human power, in transference, not in creation; & therein i...s human destiny, not in longevity but in removal. We dive & reappear in new places.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The god or hero of the sculptor is always represented in a transition from that which is representable to the senses, to that whic...h is not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In history the great moment is, when the savage is just ceasing to be a savage, with all his hairy Pelasgic strength directed on h...is opening sense of beauty;--and you have Pericles and Phidias,--and not yet passed over into the Corinthian civility. Everything good in nature and in the world is in that moment of transition, when the swarthy juices still flow plentifully from nature, but their astrigency or acridity is got out by ethics and humanity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides in the moment of transition from a past to a new state, in the shooting of the g...ulf, in the darting to an aim.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Long before your child sets foot in his dorm, you'll begin the transition to college-style parent. It's a transition fraught with ...misgivings and exuberance, with self-doubt and bursts of confidence, with joyful letting go and tearful hanging on. And in case you think these refer only to your child's feelings, they don't. These [emotions] besiege just about every parent along about second semester of junior year in high school. That's when the reality sets in that your child--not someone else's this time--will be going off to college.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A transition from an author's books to his conversation, is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect.... Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples, and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendor, grandeur, and magnificence; but, when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most remarkable aspect of the transition we are living through is not so much the passage from want to affluence as the passag...e from labor to leisure.... Leisure contains the future, it is the new horizon.... The prospect then is one of unremitting labor to bequeath to future generations a chance of founding a society of leisure that will overcome the demands and compulsions of productive labor so that time may be devoted to creative activities or simply to pleasure and happiness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »