It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.
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It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.
Each of us has much more hidden inside us than we have had a chance to explore. Unless we create an environment that enables us to discover the limits of our potential, we will never know what we have inside of us.
Let woman then go on-not asking favors, but claiming as a right the removal of all hindrances to her elevation in the scale of being-let her receive encouragement for the proper cultivation of all her powers, so that she may enter profitably into the active business of life.
Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.
Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it's uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing - resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.
That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.
We all take different paths in life, but no matter where we go, we take a little of each other everywhere.
We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
Dreams don't work unless you do
You're never beaten until you admit it
Constant dripping hollows out a stone.
Our strength grows out of our weakness.
If it is bread that you seek, you will have bread. If it is the soul you seek, you will find the soul. If you understand this secret, you know you are that which you seek.
Everybody was so kind. Strong, too. In the darkest days, the Lord puts the best people into your life." "Quick, give me a throw pillow and some thread because that needs to be an Encouragement.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
Act enthusiastic and you will be enthusiastic.
There is little success where there is little laughter.
Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.
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