My mother had demonstrated ...

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.
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

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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 Napoleon Hill
Never complain and never explain.
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 Benjamin Disraeli
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
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 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
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 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
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The [Hillary] Clinton campaign was still operating with a White House mentality.
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 Gail Sheehy
To be tested is good. The challenged life may be the best therapist.
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 Gail Sheehy
Frustration is the mother of risk.
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 Gail Sheehy
There is no more defiant denial of one man's ability to possess one woman exclusively than the prostitute who refuses to redeemed.
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 Gail Sheehy
To hear how special and wonderful we are is endlessly enthralling.
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 Gail Sheehy