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.
BARBARA SHERSometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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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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Time is clay; make something.
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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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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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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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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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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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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A good work is a partnership between you and nature… Nature will help you every step of the way.
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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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