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.
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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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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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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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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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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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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 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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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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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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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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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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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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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