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My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself—by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.
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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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With the only certainty in our daily existence being change, and a rate of change growing always faster in a kind of technological leapfrog game, speed helps people to think they are keeping up.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.
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We are not unlike a particularly hardy crustacean. The lobster grows by developing and shedding a series of hard, protective shells. Each time it expands from within, the confining skin must be sloughed off. It is left exposed and vulnerable until, in time, a new covering grows to replace the old.
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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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Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
Robert F. Kennedy
Gail Sheehy
Born:
November 27, 1937
Died:
August 24, 2020
(aged 82)
Bio:
Gail Sheehy was an American author, journalist, and lecturer. She was the author of seventeen books, including Passages, named one of the ten most influential books of our times by the Library of Congress.
Known for:
Passages (1976)
New Passages (1995)
The silent passage (1992)
Hillary's Choice (1999)
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