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.
BARBARA SHERAction 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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DO IT RIGHT, DO IT WRONG, BUT DO IT. Squeeze your eyes shut and jump. Because a wonderful thing happens then. Your focus shifts from yourself, your nervousness, and your imagined inadequacies to the task at hand.
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There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can’t have – at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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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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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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