Barbara Sher Quotes

It's the only way that YOUR life is gonna have any value to you. If you're just living the same life that everybody else is living what's the point?

What each must seek in his life never was on land or sea. It is something out of his own unique potentiality for experience, something that never has been and never could have been experienced by anyone else.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Dostoevski was on to something. You are the path you choose. You are what your vocation is.

I'm in this wonderful place of life, where everything I'm doing is something I do because I enjoy it.

People get all caught up thinking they have to train a certain way or take a certain approach to things, but there's so much more to this than fitting into what other people think you are supposed to do. You have to have fun and enjoy what you are doing; otherwise, what is it all worth?

You nourish your soul by fulfilling your destiny.

I just do what I got to do and go out and be myself, on and off the court, and take care of my obligations. That's generally your own destiny-knowing what you have to take care of.

The finest life is spent creating oneself, not procreating.

To feel ambition and to act upon it is to embrace the unique calling of our souls.

No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

By my existence I am nothing more than an empty place, an outline,that is reserved within being in general. Given with it, though, is the duty to fill in this empty place. That is my life.

You are both a work of art and an artist at work.

In my clinical experience, the greatest block to a person's development is his having to take on a way of life which is not rooted in his own powers.

You are not an accident. You are one of a kind. Your big dream is from God, and its irreplaceable. And you were born to seize it and celebrate it every day of your life!

If you spend your life trying to please people or letting them control you, you may make them happy, but you'll miss your destiny.

A wonderful realization will be the day you realize that you are unique in all the world. The world is an incredible unfulfilled tapestry, and only you can fulfill that tiny space that is yours.

I want to make my own life a masterpiece.

This, I believe, is the great Western truth: that each of us is a completely unique creature and that, if we are ever to give any gift to the world, it will have to come out of our own experience and fulfillment of our own potentialities, not someone else's.

You cannot be all things to all people. Be unique. Be different. Give to others what you want yourself. And do what you were made to do.

I just live my life.

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

If you aren't having no fun, die, because you're running a worthless program, far as I'm concerned.

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.

You are unique, and if that is not fulfilled, then something has been lost.