Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

Gail Sheehy Quotes

American - Writer Born: November 27, 1937

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. Gail Sheehy

Growth, Security, Temporary

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

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

Creativity, Go, Letting

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

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

Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads. Gail Sheehy

Rough, Deal, Punches

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

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

I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up. Gail Sheehy

Like, Getting, Actually

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

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

Grow, Will, Old

I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while. Gail Sheehy

Think, Wait, Might

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

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

Breath, Same, Oxymoron

Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on. Gail Sheehy

Failure, Willing, Still

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

Middle, Own, Perceptions

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

Die, Behind, Before

I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?' Gail Sheehy

Through, Shut, Couple

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

Aging, Process, Control

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

Humor, Rough, Times

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

Need, Judging, Someone

Career-driven millennials are strategic about working obsessively while they are single and earning enough money to afford advanced education. Most are patient enough to wait until 30 or later to develop their dream. Gail Sheehy

Education, Wait, Strategic

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, Give, Spirit

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

Women, Retire, Pieces

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

Own, Deny, Accomplice

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