It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
BARBARA SHERIsolation is a dream killer.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Sometimes life isn’t about who you were or are, but it’s about who you are becoming.
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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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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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Being judgmental is cheap. Any fool can do it.
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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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Becoming 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.
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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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Being judgmental about your own behavior is actually another cop-out because it makes you feel as though you’re doing something virtuous.
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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 environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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Isolation is the dream killer.
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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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If you don’t know how you feel, you won’t know what you want.
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Wishing and dreaming are the beginning of all human endeavor.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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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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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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Time is clay; make something.
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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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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