“Who are you? said the caterpillar… “I hardly know, Sir, just at present,” Alice replied rather shyly, “at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have changed several times since then.” -Lewis Carrol, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, (page 7 in Transitions).
“It takes a long time to be really married. One marries many times at many levels within a marriage. If you have more marriages than you have divorces within the marriage, you’re lucky and you stick it out.” -Ruby Dee, In Brian Lanker, I Dream a World, (page 55 in Transitions).
“People change and forget to tell each other.” -Lillian Hellman, Toys in the Attic, (page 55 in Transitions).
“Whoever in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a (person’s) life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires.” -Wolfgang Von Goethe, (page 77 in Transitions).
“He has half the deed done, who has made a beginning.” -Horace, Epistles (page 157 in Transitions).
“Not in his goals but in his transitions man is great.” -Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson, vol 5 (page 177 in Transitions).
The above quotes are found in Transitions, Making Sense Of Life’s Changes, by William Bridges. This is a very helpful and must read book if you are going through any transitions or changes in life. The book covers transitions, endings, going through the neutral zone, and new beginnings.
