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.
BARBARA SHERWhat 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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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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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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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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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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.
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Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
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Isolation is the dream killer.
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You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.
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In 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.
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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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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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