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 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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Everyone 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.
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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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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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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.
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Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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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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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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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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