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You never know when one kind act, or one word of encouragement, can change a life forever.

When you encourage others, you in the process are encouraged because you're making a commitment and ...

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You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

Mostly, my flying has been solo, but the preparation for it wasn't. Without my husband's help and en...

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But God is the God of the waves and the billows, and they are still His when they come over us; and ...

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Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it.

No one in my family was a reader of literary fiction. So, I didn't have encouragement, but I didn't ...

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Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Don’t quit. It’s very easy to quit during the first 10 years. Nobody cares whether you write or not,...

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I don't know where to start," one [writing student] will wail. Start with your childhood, I tell the...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report wri...

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Anne LamottBird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Some people must dream broadly and guilelessly, if only to balance those who never dream at all.

The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We ar...

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We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrad...

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All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compass...

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[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a...

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Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending ...

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Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another...

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How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How of...

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With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your c...

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The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We ar...

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We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrad...

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All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compass...

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[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a...

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Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending ...

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Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another...

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How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How of...

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With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your c...

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The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We ar...

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We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrad...

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All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compass...

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[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a...

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Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending ...

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Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another...

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How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How of...

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With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your c...

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[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a...

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The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We ar...

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We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrad...

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All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compass...

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Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending ...

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Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another...

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How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How of...

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With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your c...

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The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We ar...

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We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrad...

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All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compass...

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[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a...

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Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending ...

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Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another...

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How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How of...

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With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your c...

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The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We ar...

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We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrad...

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All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compass...

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[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a...

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Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending ...

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Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another...

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How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How of...

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With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your c...

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The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We ar...

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We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrad...

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All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compass...

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[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a...

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Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending ...

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Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another...

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How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How of...

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With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your c...

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The Bible teaches us to be more concerned about the needs and feelings of others than our own. We ar...

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We never gain in life by hurting others. Sometimes we try to elevate our own insecure egos by degrad...

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All around you are people whose lives are filled with trouble and sorrow, and they need your compass...

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[The Holy Spirit] will remain with every believer right to the end. This thought has encouraged me a...

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Sometimes we encourage someone without even being aware of it. Even the example we set by attending ...

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Renewal is brought by the Holy Spirit. Believers will learn what it means to minister to one another...

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How often do we lie simply because we are trying to build ourselves up in the eyes of others? How of...

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With an old head and a young heart, you can be a source of real strength [to others] who need your c...

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It is not trying that is ever going to bring us home. All this trying leads up to the vital moment a...

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You can make anything by writing

Correction does much, but encouragement does more.

There's one thing you may be sure of, Pip," said Joe, after some rumination, "namely, that lies is l...

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For the rest of his life, Oliver Twist remembers a single word of blessing spoken to him by another ...

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... it is shameful that there are so few women in science... In China there are many, many women in ...

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The noble-minded encourage what is beautiful in people and discourage what is ugly in them. Little p...

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How can you love people without encouraging them? And how can you be loyal to people without educati...

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And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers']...

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I make honorable things pleasant to children." A teacher from Sparta

Leadership is an individual sport, one that has to be fine-tuned to each of the people that reports ...

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But I've bought a big bat.I'm all ready, you see.Now my troubles are goingTo have troubles with me!

A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you may find encouragem...

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Everything will be okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end.

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another...

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False religion may prevail, iniquity may abound, the love of many may wax cold, the cross of Calvary...

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Mice: But reading all the good writers might discourage you.Y.C.: Then you ought to be discouraged.

I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.

The Congresswoman was depressed by the fact that a woman of her standing could no longer count on ma...

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The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights fo...

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If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of...

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