More from Barbara Sher
You don’t have to get it right the first time.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn’t worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher 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.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher 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.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher A goal is the basic unit of life design.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher
Original quotes
From our community writers
Sadness shoots a bullet straight at your heart and love buys you time.
Shelby CaudleShelby Caudle Do you think it possible that some people are born to give more love than they will ever get back in return?
Tyler Knott GregsonTyler Knott Gregson It’s been a long time since we said goodbye and yet the echoes of it are still ringing in our ears.
Ranata SuzukiRanata Suzuki In this wilderness, Mankind is the animal I fear.
Addison SchmittAddison Schmitt We can always walk with them in the rain instead of just lending an umbrella.
Leon MarshLeon Marsh Flowers only wither to bloom again. So shall you break, only to be whole again.
Fareena AliyaFareena Aliya What do you do when the passion burns out? Start another fire.
Jonny OxJonny Ox To love well is the task in all meaningful relationships, not just romantic bonds.
Bell HooksBell Hooks
Meet the writers
More on isolation
At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.
Boris PasternakBoris Pasternak Nothing more isolating than a mental illness.
HannibalHannibal All my houses are isolated. Many is the time I just stay home alone.
Jimmy PageJimmy Page I hate albums that are really happy. When I am really happy, I don’t like to hear happy albums, and when I am really sad I don’t wanna hear happy albums… and I tend to gravitate towards the lonely and isolated anyway when I write.
David BowieDavid Bowie That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.
F. Scott FitzgeraldF. Scott Fitzgerald I don’t like being completely isolated. I need the energy from other people.
Mick JaggerMick Jagger Even in times of isolation, the human family will never be alone!
Will SmithWill Smith I don’t care what you think unless it is about me.
Kurt CobainKurt Cobain
