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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 Quotes

American - Writer Born: November 27, 1937

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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

Light, Door, Skills

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, Research, Stupid

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, Grow, Living

People in grief need someone to walk with them without judging them. Gail Sheehy

Grief, People, Walk

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

Fear, Choices, Me

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. Gail Sheehy

Creativity, Letting Go, Go

If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. Gail Sheehy

Day, Grow, Every Day

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another! Gail Sheehy

Life, Changes, Die

In the first phase of shock over, say, your mortgage being called in or your job washed out, it's essential to engage with others and share the fear, release the feelings, do fun things to take your mind off it. Gail Sheehy

Fear, Job, Mind

In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network. Gail Sheehy

Work, Friends, Humor

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

Good, Successful, Rich

The delights of self-discovery are always available. - Gail Sheehy

The delights of self-discovery are always available. Gail Sheehy

Learning, Always, Available

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

Money, Coffee, Reading

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. Gail Sheehy

Age, Middle, Own

There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. Gail Sheehy

Man, Woman, Ability

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

Success, Failure, Children

I know I'm never going to probably see the Taj Mahal or, you know, climb Mt. Everest, but I can still maybe influence peoples' way of thinking by a story that I do, by something I learn about the world. Gail Sheehy

Thinking, World, Influence

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness. Gail Sheehy

Control, Process, Aging

Spontaneity, the hallmark of childhood, is well worth cultivating to counteract the rigidity that may otherwise set in as we grow older. Gail Sheehy

Childhood, Grow, Well

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy

Growth, Security, Surrender

When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking. Gail Sheehy

Women, Cooking, Men

Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. Gail Sheehy

Changes, Predictable, Own

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

Life, Leader, Action

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. Gail Sheehy

Life, Best, Good

It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes. Gail Sheehy

See, Place, Reach

Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. Gail Sheehy

Women, Sex, Same

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