Quote

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 Sher

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Barbara Sher
Age: 84 †
Born: 1935
Born: August 14
Died: 2020
Died: May 10
Author
Essayist
Motivational Speaker
Writer
Detroit
Michigan
Real
Deep
Quit
Life
Move
Require
Family
Abandon
Moving
Quitting
Jobs
Search
Dream
Watches
Tahiti
Light
Dreams
Paintbrush
Soul
Watch
Aside

More quotes by Barbara Sher

Image
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.
Barbara Sher
Image
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.
Barbara Sher
Image
And our dreams are who we are.
Barbara Sher
Image
We are like violins. We can be used as doorstops, or we can make music.
Barbara Sher
Image
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.
Barbara Sher
Image
Isolation is a dream killer.
Barbara Sher
Image
The environment that creates winners is almost always made up of winners.
Barbara Sher
Image
If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.
Barbara Sher
Image
Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.
Barbara Sher
Image
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.
Barbara Sher
Image
It's only too late if you don't start now.
Barbara Sher
Image
There is always a realistic way to fulfill any dream. There has never been a dream that you can't have - at least, not the heart of it, not the part you love the most.
Barbara Sher
Image
A goal is the basic unit of life design.
Barbara Sher
Image
Isolation is the dream killer.
Barbara Sher
Image
Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.
Barbara Sher
Image
Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.
Barbara Sher
Image
You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you
Barbara Sher
Image
Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.
Barbara Sher
Image
The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.
Barbara Sher
Image
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.
Barbara Sher