In the days before automobiles, people in horse-drawn wagons used to sleep if they were tired. They didn’t worry about getting lost, because the horse knew the way home. Your heart knows the way to your gifts. You can trust it to take you to them.
BARBARA SHERDoing 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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Isolation is the dream killer.
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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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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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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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Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.
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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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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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