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.

All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning

It isn't the changes that do you in, it's the transitions.

We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.

Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.

Nothing so undermines organizational change as the failure to think through the losses people face.

It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.