It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
BARBARA SHER
BARBARA SHER
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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.
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 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.
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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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