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.
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.
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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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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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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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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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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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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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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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.
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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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Now is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
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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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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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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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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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