Best quotes by Gail Sheehy on Life

Checkout quotes by Gail Sheehy on Life

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

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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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• ‟ 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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• ‟ Most women have learned a great deal about how to set goals for our First Adulthood and how to roll with the punches when we hit a rough passage. But we're less prepared for our Second Adulthood as we approach life after retirement, where there are no fixed entrances or exits, and lots of sand into which it is easy to bury our heads.

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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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• ‟ Be willing to shed parts of your previous life. For example, in our 20s, we wear a mask; we pretend we know more than we do. We must be willing, as we get older, to shed cocktail party phoniness and admit, 'I am who I am.'

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• ‟ When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

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• ‟ When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

  - Gail Sheehy
  

• ‟ This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.

  - Gail Sheehy