Quotes from Barbara Sher

The problem is that most of us have limited our imagination to what we have been told is possible—and usually we've been told by people without much experience.

Through all the world there goes one long cry from the heart of the artist: Only give me the chance to do my very best!

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.

Your love belongs to you. You mustn't let anyone touch it, not even him. You can keep away from him, but don't try to destroy your love. That love is yours. Keep it.

We all fight sorrow as if it would harm us. The opposite is true. Sorrow can heal us. Letting your heart break can be good for you.

You'll never feel like exercising less than now when you need it most - but do it anyway.

Protecting yourself by stopping your own enthusiasm is unavoidable. No one can take endless doses of hurt. Unfortunately, stopping your enthusiasm can get to be a habit.

Pride is a thin substitute for sincere, openhearted dignity.

A gripe session gets that negativity out where we can see it instead of letting it lurk around inside where it has too much power.

The heart hates unfinished business

Some people have a pattern of getting exhausted to cover up resentment—or one of grouchiness to cover up fear.

Isolation is the dream killer. It will stop you every time.

You're obviously capable of achieving a lot, but ability can never take the place of desire. Don't be tempted to do something just because you can. That's what got you off course in the first place.

Or, as the American novelist Richard Ford put it: "Angry words are all alike. They all mean, 'What about me?'")

Scanners can't choose one direction. It's like telling a parent to choose one child to feed. It's just not possible. A parent knows she has to feed all her children. And a Scanner must find a way to follow every path that interests her.

You can earn a living doing anything. (Whether or not you want to is another matter.) But it's not time to think about money yet. Finding what you love – by listening for those Happiness Levels inside you – needs all your attention. For now, pretend you're rich and don't need to earn any money at all. When your dream starts to show itself, you'll see just how many ways there are to do it, both for money and for love.

Nobody has ever succeeded in designing and building a bridge to a cloud.

Remember: It doesn't matter if you never do what you're describing on these pages, because finishing a project is not the issue here. This is about your vision and the free play of ideas for pure enjoyment.

It's as though we loved our past, but our past didn't love us. So we go on strike and pretend we don't care, as if to punish fate for being unkind. Fate never cares, of course, so we only hurt ourselves.

felt under the gun in the past

Love is fusion.

Each time you judge yourself, you break your heart.

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