Gail Sheehy Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• According to the prevailing mythology, to be younger is to be better; therefore, we should expect to find young people in the majority of those who reflect high well-being... In fact, the one finding that registered more consistently and emphatically than any other in the course of my research was this: Older is better.

  Gail Sheehy

  People, Age, Majority

• The present never ages. Each moment is like a snowflake, unique, unspoiled, unrepeatable, and can be appreciated in its surprisingness.

  Gail Sheehy

  Unique, Age, Appreciated

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.428, Ballantine Books

• 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.

  Gail Sheehy

  Mother, Age, Way

• As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, 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

  Meaningful, Running, Ideas

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

• The fundamental steps of expansion that will open a person, over time, to the full flowering of his or her individuality are the same for both genders. But men and women are rarely in the same place struggling with the same questions at the same age.

  Gail Sheehy

  Struggle, Flower, Men

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

• The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.

  Gail Sheehy

  Birthday, Perception, Age

  Gail Sheehy (1977). “Passages: Predictable Crises of Adult Life”, Bantam

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