Quotes of Gail Sheehy - somelinesforyou

“ Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. ”

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Gail Sheehy

“ Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. ”

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Gail Sheehy

“ 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

“ There certainly are middle-aged children who have an oh-my-God, Mom's-gone-wild reaction if Mom starts to date. But what they should recognize is that if Mom has a boyfriend, she won't be nagging them about how they have to come to her for Christmas. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ There certainly are middle-aged children who have an oh-my-God, Mom's-gone-wild reaction if Mom starts to date. But what they should recognize is that if Mom has a boyfriend, she won't be nagging them about how they have to come to her for Christmas. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ There certainly are middle-aged children who have an oh-my-God, Mom's-gone-wild reaction if Mom starts to date. But what they should recognize is that if Mom has a boyfriend, she won't be nagging them about how they have to come to her for Christmas. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ There certainly are middle-aged children who have an oh-my-God, Mom's-gone-wild reaction if Mom starts to date. But what they should recognize is that if Mom has a boyfriend, she won't be nagging them about how they have to come to her for Christmas. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. ”

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Gail Sheehy

“ 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

“ Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation. ”

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Gail Sheehy

“ Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ 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

“ The delights of self-discovery are always available. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ 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

“ We hear the haunting presentiment of a dutiful middle age in the current reluctance of young people to select any option except the one they feel will impinge upon them the least. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ Everyone has difficulty with the steps of inner growth, even with the outer obstacles seem easily surmountable. What's more, the prizes of our society are reserved for outer, not inner, achievements. Scant are the tropies for reconciling all the forces that compete to direct our development, although working toward such a reconciliation hour by demanding hour, day by triumphant day, year by exacting year is what underlies all growth of the personality. ”

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Gail Sheehy

“ The delights of self-discovery are always available. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ The delights of self-discovery are always available. ”

- Gail Sheehy

“ 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

“ It took a Hillary to raise a president. ”

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Gail Sheehy
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