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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.

Barbara Sher

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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Eye Focus Hands
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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Dream Inspiration Inspiring
It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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Aquariums Events Expectations
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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Dream Inspiration Loss
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.
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Dream Jobs Real
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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Careers Choices Thinking
What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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Career Heart Passion
You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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Action Firsts Time
Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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Care Genius Originality
Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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Country Destination Horizon
Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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Dream Endeavor Wish
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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Animal Esteem Good Luck Self
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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Best Effort Love Mean
Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Esteem Resentment Self Weak
And our dreams are who we are.
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Dream Hard Passion Success Work
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Music Used Violin

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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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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