Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
BARBARA SHERIf you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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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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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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Isolation is the dream killer.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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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.
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Time is clay; make something.
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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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And our dreams are who we are.
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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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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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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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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When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.
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A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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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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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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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.
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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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Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
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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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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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