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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.

- Gail Sheehy
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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.

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.

If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.

We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.

I did not give my daughter the kind of childhood anybody would want. The vision of the divided loyalty between a mother and father who don't live together and don't share in decisions is a great depravation for children.

One of the ways we women often handicap ourselves is thinking that once we've made a decision or a commitment, we can't change.

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.'

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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.