Gail Sheehy Quotes

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• The delights of self-discovery are always available.
• Although there are many trial marriages... there is no such thing as a trial child.
• By listening, by caring, by playing you back to yourself, friends ratify your better instincts and endorse your unique worth. Friends validate you.
• 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…
• 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.
• When you have self-respect, you have enough.
• 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. If we…
• Whether one has natural talent or not, any learning period requires the willingness to suffer uncertainty and embarrassment.
• To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
• The source of continuing aliveness was to find your passion and pursue it, with whole heart and single mind.
• 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…
• 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…
• Frustration is the mother of risk.
• The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.
• 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…
• 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…
• Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.
• 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.
• With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game,…

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