GSGail Sheehy

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Gail Sheehy

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01Undated

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

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02Undated

To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.

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03Undated

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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04Undated

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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05Undated

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

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06Undated

Changes are not predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation.

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07Undated

To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.

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08Undated

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

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09Undated

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

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10Undated

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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11Undated

Transformation also means looking for ways to stop pushing yourself so hard professionally or inviting so much stress.

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12Undated

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

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13Undated

In rough times, pathfinders rely on work, friends, humor and prayer. They develop a support network.

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14Undated

In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our children to hide out.

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15Undated

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

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16Undated

The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

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17Undated

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

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18Undated

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

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19Undated

I do think taking the 20s to take the most chances you can is important, because you're not going to hurt anyone else during that time. And if you do have a partner, you need a couple years to rehearse that relationship.

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20Undated

I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.

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