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.
BARBARA SHERWe all need to learn a new language for love – a language that speaks not in socks, pancakes, and paychecks, but in shared fascination with physics or poetry, delight in each other’s uniqueness, and mutual practical and emotional support.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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Action helps you think and raises your self-esteem. Good luck happens when you’re in action. Ask yourself, “Does this go toward or away from what I want?” There’s an animal in us, and it has great instincts. Scan for a desire and follow it. Set a goal, any goal, and start doing everything you can think of to achieve it.
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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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Find what you love, because greatness is based on great gifts. If you love something, you can count on the fact that you are genetically gifted at it.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.
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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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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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