Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
BARBARA SHERAnd our dreams are who we are.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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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.
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The first step is to find out what you love – and don’t be practical about it. The second step is to start doing what you love immediately, in any small way possible.
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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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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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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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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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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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What you love is as unique to you as your fingerprints. You need to know that because nothing will make you really happy but doing what you love.
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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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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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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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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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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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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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