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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.

Barbara Sher

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Barbara Sher
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 14
Died: 2020
Died: May 10
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Essayist
Motivational Speaker
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Detroit
Michigan
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Gifted
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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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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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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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Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.
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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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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.
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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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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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Find out what you love. Do it because you love it. Stick with it. Start now.
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And our dreams are who we are.
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If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
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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 are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
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Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.
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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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It's only too late if you don't start now.
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A goal is the basic unit of life design.
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The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
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You don't have to get it right the first time.
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