Quotes from Barbara Sher

You cannot tell your heart what it wants. Your heart will tell you

What you want is what you need. Your dearest wish comes straight from your core, loaded with vital information about who you are and who you can become.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Resentment is weak and lowers your self-esteem.

Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

Anything worth doing is worth doing too soon.

"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.

In the rush of daily living it's easy to forget all the remarkable people, real or fictional, who have been a part of your life. But if you just imagine they are near for a moment, you will realize that anyone who ever touched your heart is always with you, patiently waiting to emanate warmth and support whenever you remember to think of them.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Doing is a quantum leap from imagining.

The defense force inside of us wants us to be cautious, to stay away from anything as intense as a new kind of action. Its job is to protect us, and it categorically avoids anything resembling danger. But it's often wrong.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

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.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.

A good work is a partnership between you and nature... Nature will help you every step of the way.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

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.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.

And our dreams are who we are.

If you truly feared failure, you'd be very successful.