Barbara Sher Quotes

We're never gonna move forward if we can't let go of things, especially things that don't happen to people today.

Successful people move on their own initiative but they know where they are going before they start.

Money isn't always going to make it happen. It's important to be around people that have the right kind of attitude, being happy about what you're doing.

I really believe that happiness comes from things that cannot taken away from you.

I've got everything I wanted so I'm just happy.

The clue to happiness is being interested in life. People's happiness is as great as they can create it.

I'm happy with the success I've had, and I feel like there's been a lot that I've learned this year, and that's a great thing going into the future.

I always tell people happiness comes in one word: progress. I don't care what you achieve.

But you have to have hope. You have to be optimistic in order to continue to move forward.

Happiness is really just about four things: perceived control, perceived progress, connectedness (number and depth of your relationships), and vision/meaning (being part of something bigger than yourself).

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

I'm just happy as a lark having a good health. People say are you thinking about retiring, I don't have time to think about retiring.

I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.

I've got more energy now than when I was younger because I know exactly what I want to do.

There are things money can't buy and hard work can't win. One of them is happiness.

Don't stop moving - the best time of your life is just around the corner!

Make the choice that you want to be happy. You owe it to yourself and you owe it to other people too.

A primary purpose for setting goals is to get you moving in the right direction. When you set goals, you have to keep them always in mind.

Happiness comes to those who are moving toward something they want very much to happen. And it almost always involves making someone else happy.

I've about decided that's the main thing that separates happy people from the other people: the feeling that you're a practical item, with a use, like a sweater or a socket wrench.

To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

Happy people die whole, they are all dissolved in a moment, they have had what they wanted.

Keep on moving: any motion is forward motion. You can always course-correct.

You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future.

Each rebuff is an opportunity to move forward; turn away from them, avoid them, and you throw away your future.