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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy
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American
-
Writer
Born:
November 27
, 1937
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Gail Sheehy
Change
,
Living
,
Grow
If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
Gail Sheehy
Grow
,
Old
,
Will
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
Gail Sheehy
Creativity
,
Go
,
Letting
Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
Gail Sheehy
Same
,
Breath
,
Oxymoron
We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
Gail Sheehy
Chance
,
Play
,
Always
The delights of self-discovery are always available.
Gail Sheehy
Learning
,
Always
,
Delights
Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.
Gail Sheehy
Stress
,
Stupid
,
Soup
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
Gail Sheehy
Failure
,
Still
,
Willing
Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'
Gail Sheehy
Wear
,
Shed
,
Willing
In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.
Gail Sheehy
Away
,
Fact
,
Been
I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
Gail Sheehy
Getting
,
Like
,
Actually
Adapting to our Second Adulthood is not all about the money. It requires thinking about how to find a new locus of identity or how to adjust to a spouse who stops working and who may loll, enjoying coffee and reading the paper online while you're still commuting.
Gail Sheehy
Our
,
About
,
While
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
Gail Sheehy
Growth
,
Security
,
Temporary
People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them.
Gail Sheehy
Judging
,
Someone
,
Need
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.
Gail Sheehy
Door
,
New
,
Set
Would that there were an award for people who come to understand the concept of enough. Good enough. Successful enough. Thin enough. Rich enough. Socially responsible enough. When you have self-respect, you have enough.
Gail Sheehy
Self-Respect
,
Socially
The secret of a leader lies in the tests he has faced over the whole course of his life and the habit of action he develops in meeting those tests.
Gail Sheehy
Leader
,
Over
,
The Secret Of
No sooner do we think we have assembled a comfortable life than we find a piece of ourselves that has no place to fit in.
Gail Sheehy
Think
,
Fit
,
Sooner
It was so naive to think that there was nothing interesting that happened after 55. Come on, there's a whole second adulthood!
Gail Sheehy
Think
,
Nothing
,
Interesting
I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
Gail Sheehy
Doing
,
Idea
,
About
We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
Gail Sheehy
Rest
,
Spirit
,
Give
This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
Gail Sheehy
Deserve
,
Own
,
Need
Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older.
Gail Sheehy
Hallmark
,
Otherwise
,
Set
The dream for many millennial women is to make a difference as social or political entrepreneurs. They are using the social media and marketing tools they have mastered to empower less fortunate women and direct them onto career tracks that women have traditionally avoided, like science and technology.
Gail Sheehy
Career
,
Entrepreneurs
If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.
Gail Sheehy
Alive
,
Your
,
Eventually
We have to move from the unbridled pursuit of self-gain at the expense of others to recovering appreciation for what we gain by caring and sharing with one another.
Gail Sheehy
Move
,
Pursuit
,
Recovering
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