Gail Sheehy Quotes

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.

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

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.

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

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

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

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.

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

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.

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.