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.
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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You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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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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The cure for sorrow is to learn something.
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Real obstacles don’t take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
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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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Time is clay; make something.
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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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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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Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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Whenever you do what you really love, your heart lifts, your mind opens, and everything changes. You wake up. That’s what true adventure really is.
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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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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What you’re really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
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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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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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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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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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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.
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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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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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