Thinking about swimming isn’t much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
BARBARA SHERBeing judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
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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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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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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.
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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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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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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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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When you start using senses you’ve neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.
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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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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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