Gail Sheehy Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
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“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
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“Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.”
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“To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.”
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“If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.”
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“Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.”
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“Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.”
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“A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.”
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“Phases of the creative process: Preparation-gathering impressions Incubation-letting go of certainties Immersion/Illumination-creative intervention/risk Revision-conscious structuring and editing of creative material.”
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“The work of adult life is not easy. As in childhood, each step presents not only new tasks of development but requires a letting go of the techniques that worked before. With each passage some magic must be given up, some cherished illusion of safety and comfortably familiar sense of self must be cast off, to allow for the greater expansion of our distinctiveness.”
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“You may never know when things start to go bad, but when things are worse you know it.”
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“We must be willing to change chairs if we want to grow. There is no permanent compatibility between a chair and a person. And there is no one right chair. What is right at one stage may be restricting at another or too soft. During the passage from one stage to another, we will be between two chairs. Wobbling no doubt, but developing.”
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“To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.”
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“The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.”
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“According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.”
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“When you have self-respect, you have enough.”
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“The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.”
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“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.”
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“Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.”
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“Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.”
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“It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes.”
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“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”
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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.”
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“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.”
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“The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.”
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“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.”
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“There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.”
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“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.”
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“Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that's never lost is your sister.”
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