Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
BARBARA SHEREach destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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Real Dreams don’t require you to abandon your family, quit your job, and move to Tahiti with your paintbrush. They just require that you search your soul for that deep dream you put aside-and go for it. And watch your life light up.
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Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
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Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
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Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
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A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it’s positive, it is considered subjective. And ‘objective’ means it is accurate, and ‘subjective’ means it is conceited self-delusion.
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Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
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Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can’t have it all at once and you can’t have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
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The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
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