It’s essential to distinguish between events that are really beyond your control and events you caused yourself.
BARBARA SHERNow is the operative word. Everything you put in your way is just a method of putting off the hour when you could actually be doing your dream.
More Barbara Sher Quotes
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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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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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Doing what you love isn’t a priviledge; it’s an obligation.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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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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Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they’re moving toward getting it.
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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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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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It’s only too late if you don’t start now.
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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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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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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