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 SHERWe 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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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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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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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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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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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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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you’re gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.
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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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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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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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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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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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