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.
BARBARA SHERHappy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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Your creativity is waiting for you like a dancing partner.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
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Irreverence is a declaration of independence.
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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren’t.
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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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You don’t need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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When you play it too safe, you’re taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we’re given.
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It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
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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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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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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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And our dreams are who we are.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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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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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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Down deep we really know our worth, but we don’t have easy access to that knowledge. We need to hear praise coming from outside ourselves or we won’t remember that we deserve it.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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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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