The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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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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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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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I believe you can have whatever you really want in this life, in one form or another, sooner or later. All you have to do is take care of your health and be lucky enough to live for a while. But you can’t have it all at once and you can’t have it forever. No life has the room for everything in it, not on the same day.
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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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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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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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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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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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Every single one of us can do things that no one else can do can love things that no one else can love. We are like violins. We can be used for doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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