Gail Sheehy Quotes

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• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.

  Gail Sheehy

  Life, Change, Growth

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

  Gail Sheehy

  Organization, Meditation, Growth

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Successful, Awards, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Gail Sheehy

  Risk, Goes On, Willing

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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

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Gail Sheehy

  Growing, Awakening, Aging

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.429, Ballantine Books

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• Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

  Gail Sheehy

  Giving Up, Real, Mean

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Sweet, Wine, Life Experience

  Gail Sheehy (2006). “Sex and the Seasoned Woman: Pursuing the Passionate Life”, Random House Incorporated

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• As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

  Gail Sheehy

  Meaningful, Running, Ideas

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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

  Gail Sheehy

  Funny, Witty, Teacher

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• If menopause is the silent passage, 'male menopause' is the unspeakable passage. It is fraught with secrecy, shame, and denial. It is much more fundamental than the ending of the fertile period of a woman's life, because it strikes at the core of what it is to be a man.

  Gail Sheehy

  Men, Males, Denial

  "Male Menopause: New Book Argues Midlife Transition Is Just As Hard On Men" By Shelley Emling, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 7, 2012.

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Letting Go, Self, Safety

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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• With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.

  Gail Sheehy

  Growth, Way, Vulnerable

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Sister, Children

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• Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.

  Gail Sheehy

  Love, Family, Marriage

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• The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.

  Gail Sheehy

  Passion, Heart, Enjoy Life

  Gail Sheehy (1995). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, Random House Canada

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• My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.

  Gail Sheehy

  Mother, Age, Way

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• My research offers impressive evidence that we feel better when we attempt to make our world better...to have a purpose beyond one's self lends to existence a meaning and direction - the most important characteristic of high well-being.

  Gail Sheehy

  Feel Better, Our World, Self

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• Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.

  Gail Sheehy

  Natural Talent, Suffering, Embarrassment

  Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.349, Penguin

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• The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

  Gail Sheehy

  Unique, Age, Appreciated

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.428, Ballantine Books

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Inspirational, Leadership, Military

  Gail Sheehy (1990). “The man who changed the world: the lives of Mikhail S. Gorbachev”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The secret in the search for meaning is to find your passion and pursue it.

  Gail Sheehy

  Passion, Secret, Pursue

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.153, Ballantine Books

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Letting Go, Creativity, Illumination

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• Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life.

  Gail Sheehy

  Thinking, Family Life, Young Women

  "'You Don't Have to Lose Yourself': A Conversation with Gail Sheehy". The Amazon Book Review Interview, www.amazonbookreview.com. September 1, 2014.

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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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Inspirational, Thinking, Self

  Gail Sheehy (2013). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, p.118, Penguin

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