Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
BARBARA SHERBecoming 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.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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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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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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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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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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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And our dreams are who we are.
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