Quotes by Gail Sheehy

“Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”

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

“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 hadnt known before.”

“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.”

“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”

“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.”

Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.

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

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.

Changes are not only possible and predictable but to deny them is to be an accomplice to ones own unnecessary vegetation.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

The delights of self-discovery are always available.

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

In my memoir, I admit that Ive 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.