More from Barbara Sher
Isolation is a dream killer.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher 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.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Time is clay; make something.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher 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 SherBarbara Sher 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.
Barbara SherBarbara Sher Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
Barbara SherBarbara 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
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From our community writers
Poetry is the voice of the soul and the inspiration of the heart.
Teresa PeresTeresa Peres But it was now time for her to go away-to find someone who could show her what happiness was.
Lang LeavLang Leav Just because you haven’t seen how wonderful, beautiful, and special she is, doesn’t mean no one else will.
Norah RoseNorah Rose A memory is a star or a stain.
Aneena BijuAneena Biju Love her, but don’t forget to leave her wild.
Little PaulsonLittle Paulson Do your own thing and live your way of happiness.
Emily BockEmily Bock I’ve experienced departure far too much to have the courage and call anyone my own.
Mira R. AridiMira R. Aridi More often than I am not, all I need is the rise of my own lungs – I am already complete.
Shelby EnsignShelby Ensign
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More on leap
Two things will get you to leap out of yourselves into the promises of God today. One is purity, and the other is FAITH, which is kindled more and more BY PURITY.
Smith WigglesworthSmith Wigglesworth One reason, doubtless, why squirrels are so bold and reckless in leaping through the trees is that, if they miss their hold and fall, they sustain no injury.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs Leap, and the net will appear.
John BurroughsJohn Burroughs In short, we find the faith of leap.
Alan HirschAlan Hirsch You know, to be completely disgusted with injustice to the point that you will have to take some huge leaps of faith. And it may take one person leading many.
Aisha HindsAisha Hinds I think we’re in a time that calls for that level of courage, that level of resolve.
Aisha HindsAisha Hinds If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.
AdyashantiAdyashanti The artist never entirely knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.
Agnes de MilleAgnes de Mille
