Awakening at Midlife Quotes

“The sense of fear and loss that accompanies the letting go of dreams that will never be is best described by the German word torschlusspanik, defined as “panic at the thought that a door between oneself and life’s opportunities has shut.”
― KathleenA. Brehony, Awakening at Midlife: Realizing Your Potential for Growth and Change

“A simple thought or memory of a traumatic event, for example, has the capacity to increase our blood pressure,”
― KathleenA. Brehony, Awakening at Midlife: Realizing Your Potential for Growth and Change

“James Hollis correctly observes, “Wisdom is always humbling, never inflationary. . . . The realistic thinking of midlife has as its necessary goal the righting of a balance, the restoration of a person to a humble but dignified relationship to the universe.”
― KathleenA. Brehony, Awakening at Midlife: Realizing Your Potential for Growth and Change