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.
BARBARA SHEREveryone 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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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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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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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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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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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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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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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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 are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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