When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.
BARBARA SHERIt’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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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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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.
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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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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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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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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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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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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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Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.
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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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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