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Gail Sheehy - From the Aging category:
It is a paradox that as we reach out prime, we also see there is a place where it finishes. (Gail Sheehy)
Gail Sheehy - From the Challenge category:
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist. (Gail Sheehy)
Gail Sheehy - From the Change category:
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, speed helps people think they are catching up. (Gail Sheehy)
Gail Sheehy - From the Change category:
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)
Gail Sheehy - From the Creativity category:
Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. (Gail Sheehy)
Gail Sheehy - From the Creativity category:
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)
Gail Sheehy - From the Discovery category:
The delights of self-discovery are always available. (Gail Sheehy)
Gail Sheehy - From the Growth category:
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. (Gail Sheehy)
Gail Sheehy - From the Insecurity category:
Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. (Gail Sheehy)
Gail Sheehy - From the Leadership category:
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)
Gail Sheehy - From the Life category:
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)
Gail Sheehy - From the Perception category:
The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity. (Gail Sheehy)
Gail Sheehy - From the Politics category:
It took a Hillary to raise a president... (Gail Sheehy)
Gail Sheehy - From the Revelation category:
If every day is an awakening; you will never grow old. You will just keep growing. (Gail Sheehy)
Gail Sheehy - From the Rewards category:
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)
Gail Sheehy - From the Skill category:
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)
Gail Sheehy - From the Vulnerability category:
With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure (like a hardy crustacean). We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before. (Gail Sheehy)
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