Gail Sheehy Quotes About Growth
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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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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With each passage of human growth we must shed a protective structure . We are left exposed and vulnerable - but also yeasty and embryonic again, capable of stretching in ways we hadn't known before.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living.
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Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.
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