Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
BARBARA SHERNot fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone’s gift – yours and mine.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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A direct statement about yourself is considered objective only if it is negative. If it’s positive, it is considered subjective. And ‘objective’ means it is accurate, and ‘subjective’ means it is conceited self-delusion.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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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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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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Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish.
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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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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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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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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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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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