Gail Sheehy Quotes
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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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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!
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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.
[Change]
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Changes are not predictable; but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
[Creativity]
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
[Change]
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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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It is a silly question to ask a prostitute why she does it. These are the highest-paid "professional" women in America.
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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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Over the next few years the boardrooms of America are going to light up with hot flashes.
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Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath.
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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.
[Adversity]
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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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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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To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
[Adversity]
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To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
[Motivation]
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