More from Barbara Sher
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher 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.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
Barbara SherBarbara Sher 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.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher And our dreams are who we are.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher 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 SherBarbara Sher Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher 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.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher 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.
Barbara SherBarbara 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.
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From our community writers
People who don’t know how to love you are always going to hurt your heart.
H. DcostaH. Dcosta I no longer seek the love I think I deserve but rather the love I’ve always deserved.
Ava NicoleAva Nicole There is no such thing as a good investment.
Manish KhuntetaManish Khunteta Without you, I’m lost.
Amanda KarchAmanda Karch I did everything I could to make it work I was casting nets into the ocean and all they were doing was returning back empty.
Carmen AmadosCarmen Amados We flew to heaven, and we touched the sun.
Jennifer JulietteJennifer Juliette You told me everything would be okay. I wish you had said – you’ll hurt but I’ll hold you.
Ullie KayeUllie Kaye Be brave, be bold, beware that you must believe before becoming.
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More on clay
The past exudes legend: one can’t make pure clay of time’s mud.
Bernard MalamudBernard Malamud Python carries his loneliness in him as if he had eaten clay.
Barbara Chase-RiboudBarbara Chase-Riboud Time is clay. Go make something.
Barbara BachBarbara Bach I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.
Muhammad IqbalMuhammad Iqbal England is not a country of granite and marble, but of chalk, marl, and clay.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs I like having my hands in the clay. I like the movie-making process.
Matthew McConaugheyMatthew McConaughey For this occurs just as clay is first molded into one, then shaped into another form, for the Devil is a potter and his witches are but clay.
Aino KallasAino Kallas For as from the same piece of clay a potter may fashion either a pot or a tile, so the Devil may shape a witch into a wolf or a cat or even a goat, without subtracting from her and without adding to her at all.
Aino KallasAino Kallas
