We 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.
BARBARA SHERUnkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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.
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Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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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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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know 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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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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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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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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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Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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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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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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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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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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