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.
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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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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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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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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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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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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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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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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Now 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.
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You don’t have to get it right the first time.
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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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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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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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If you truly feared failure, you’d be very successful.
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