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.
BARBARA SHERImaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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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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Sometimes the only thing we do to avoid success is refuse to be energetic on our own behalf
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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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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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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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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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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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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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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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