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.
BARBARA SHERWhat you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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Change is not only likely, it’s inevitable.
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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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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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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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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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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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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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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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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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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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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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