Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHERI 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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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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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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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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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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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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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.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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Time is clay; make something.
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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
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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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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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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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