Gail Sheehy Famous Quotes
"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."
"If every day is an awakening, you will never grow old. You will just keep growing."
"Changes are not only possible and predictable, but to deny them is to be an accomplice to one's own unnecessary vegetation."
"As we reach midlife . we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don't hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties."
Gail Sheehy Quotations
"Out of life's school of war What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
Friedrich Nietzsche
"This is before the coming of a new Heaven and a new Earth, in the which shall reign the Prince of Peace forever and forever, as the Old shall be passed away, for lo on earth there is nothing great but man in man there is nothing great but mind. . . . ."
Phylos the Tibetan
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Carl Jung
The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Herbert Agar
"Love, I find, is like singing. Everybody can do enough to satisfy themselves, though it may not impress the neighbors as being very much."
Zora Neale Hurston
"We all live with the objective of being happy, our lives are all different and yet the same."
Anne Frank
"A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something."
Wilson Mizner
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
Johann von Goethe
Cheerfulness in most cheerful people is the rich and satisfying result of strenuous discipline.
Edwin Percy Whipple
"I can't criticize what I don't understand. If you want to call this art, you've got the benefit of all my doubts."
Charles Rosin