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.
Gail SheehyRead
Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Being a pathfinder involves embracing the possibility of failure while continuing to pursue one's goals.
The quote by Gail Sheehy emphasizes the essence of bravery and resilience in the journey of exploration and growth. To be a pathfinder is to forge one’s own path, accepting the inherent risks and uncertainties that accompany new ventures. It suggests that true courage lies not in the absence of fear, but in the determination to press on despite the possibility of failing.
Themes
PathfinderFailureCourageRiskGrowth
In practice
Example use cases
When giving a motivational speech to students about taking risks in their careers.
More from Gail Sheehy
All quotes →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 SheehyRead
I was devastated when I got the review for my first book. The book came out a couple years before the women's movement broke through, and people were putting it down, asking, 'Why does the woman in this book need to get a divorce? Why can't she just shut up and be happy?'
Gail SheehyRead
A seasoned woman is spicy. She has been marinated in life experiences. Like a complex wine, she can be alternately sweet, tart, sparkling, mellow. She is both maternal and playful. Assured, alluring, and resourceful.
Gail SheehyRead
This is something caregivers have to understand: You have to ask for help. You have to realize that you deserve to ask for help. Because you need to keep on working on your own life.
Gail SheehyRead
I found that female pathfinders generally integrate characteristics commonly associated with being women - like the capacity to be intimate - with 'male' ones like ambition and courage.
Gail SheehyRead
Similar quotes
Hitting bottom and hitting it hard was the worst thing that ever happened to me and the best thing that ever happened to me.
Dave RamseyRead
Where we come from does not determine who we can become. What we look like places no limits on what we can achieve. We should all have the right to express ourselves, all have the right to be heard, all have the right to be what we can be: To reach for the sky and touch the stars. No matter who we are, no matter whether we are man or woman, or rich or poor: _x000D_ My voice, my right. My voice counts.
Desmond TutuRead
...the other half of rising—the very half that makes rising necessary—is having been nailed to the cross.
Cheryl StrayedRead
The struggle isn't just about being straight or gay or transgender - it's a human struggle. That's always really been my kind of starting point: If you're out there and you're odd, come over to my house.
Boy GeorgeRead
If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.
Aung San Suu KyiRead
There were a lot of hard times, and having to have a team of people help me out of the bed, having to use a bedpan is a really tough thing to swallow. But looking back, I'm proud of my scars and what myself and my Marines went through in Marjah.
Kyle CarpenterRead