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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.

Barbara Sher

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
BARBARA SHER

Esteem Resentment Self Weak
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.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Jobs Real
Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
BARBARA SHER

Attitude Real Worry
Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
BARBARA SHER

Country Destination Horizon
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 SHER

Delight Emotional Support
Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHER

Leadership Motivation Real
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.
BARBARA SHER

Conceited Mean Self
If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
BARBARA SHER

Failure Successful Truly
You don’t have to get it right the first time.
BARBARA SHER

Action Firsts Time
And our dreams are who we are.
BARBARA SHER

Dream Hard Passion Success Work
Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
BARBARA SHER

Love Obligation Passion Privilege
Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
BARBARA SHER

Acceptance Love Loving Single Yourself
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 SHER

Facts Greatness Love
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
BARBARA SHER

Good Luck Lucky Way
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 SHER

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

Late Now Start

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