If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

Gail Sheehy Quotes

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

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

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

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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