William Bridges
The outer forms of our lives can change in an instant, but the inner reorientation that brings us back into a vital relation to people and activity takes time.
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
We come to beginnings only at the end.
Recognize that transition has a characteristic shape.