Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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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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Time is clay; make something.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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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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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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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