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What you're really supposed to be doing is whatever makes your heart sing.
Barbara Sher
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Barbara Sher
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 14
Died: 2020
Died: May 10
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Detroit
Michigan
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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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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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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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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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Originality is genius. If you respect and care for it, it will take you on the ride of your life.
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But who you are is not a concept in the sky, and it's not a record of you accomplishments either. The most original and creative side of you can re-emerge only when you get time of your own, free time, wide-open time, uncommitted time, time in which to go after dreams or do absolutely nothing if you choose. Without it you can't have a self.
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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
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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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Isolation is the dream killer.
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Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.
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If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
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We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Every time you worry that you could get trapped in some kind of work you don't care about, you're dealing with the problem of meaningfulness. I guarantee that in the back of your mind is the thought that somehow you have to make a contribution to something, be acknowledged, do something that matters-or you're just fooling around.
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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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It's only too late if you don't start now.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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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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And our dreams are who we are.
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