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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.

Barbara Sher

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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Delight Emotional Support
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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Swimming Thinking Water
Every time you have to make a choice about anything, think Does this go toward or away from what I want? Always choose what goes toward what you want.
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Careers Choices Thinking
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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Good Luck Lucky Way
Time is clay; make something.
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Clay Make Something
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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Happiness Love Unique
A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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Design Goal Units
You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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Action Firsts Time
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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Dream Inspiration Loss
If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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Failure Successful Truly
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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Animal Esteem Good Luck Self
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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Conceited Mean Self
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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Best Effort Love Mean
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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Eye Focus Hands
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Music Used Violin
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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Acceptance Love Loving Single Yourself

If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.

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