What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
BARBARA SHERIn the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn’t worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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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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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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I 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.
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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
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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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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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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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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.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
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