You’re going to act like a happy man. I know, I know. It’s the hardest role in the world.

You can’t be stop. Reach out for your dreams.

On Lee as commander: “He had a cheerful dignity and could praise them (his men) without seeming to court their favor.

This obsession is a curious thing. Sometimes wonder about the merits of devoting so much of myself to a singular climbing objective. Much of the time it beats me down, leaves me hanging my head in despair. But then there are the moments that bring me to life. When excitement wells up inside my chest...

There are moments when troubles enter our lives and we can do nothing to avoid them.But they are there for a reason. Only when we have overcome them will we understand why they were there.

You’re not broken beyond repair there is hope. There is a God who knows all the pain you endure and will heal, protect and rejuvenate you.

The battle for our lives, and the lives of our children, our husbands, our friends, our families, & our nation, is waged on our knees.

When we forgive someone, it doesn’t justify what they’ve done. It releases them into God’s hands so He can deal with them.

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can’t see it.

There IS a better future for you! Get rid of that negative and defeated attitude. Stop tearing yourself down and learn to build yourself up. Speak positively about yourself. If you’re not satisfied with who you are and where you’re at in your life, have the courage to make a change and be a person...

Don’t do it! Don’t you dare think about giving up! EVERYTHING has a process. Work with the process, not against it. Move forward with purpose and never stop believing. You can do this! You know you can.

Do what makes YOU happy. Focus on what brings YOU joy. Appreciate and do more things that make YOU smile. Live your life for yourself. You matter! You count! You’re deserving of true happiness! This is YOUR life. Live it to the fullest! Live life with no regrets.

We give up our power to the very people who took it away from us in the first place.

Failure is not the opposite of success, inaction is.

Intercourse is one thing, Intimacy is everything. Be encouraged

We’re very encouraged. Our members are speaking out very loudly in huge numbers, they understand what is at stake. This is the year that the state needs to do it.

We are very encouraged

To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.

We are leashed by societal norms, defined by our willingness to conform, but limited only by our imagination.

Do not sit still; start moving now. In the beginning, you may not go in the direction you want, but as long as you are moving, you are creating alternatives and possibilities.

Don’t look for the ninety percent of the darkness in a person’s soul. Look for the ten percent of light they have left, then lend them yours because light was meant to be shared.

To turn the tide of materialism in the Christian community, we desperately need bold models of kingdom-centered living. Despite our need to do it in a way that doesn’t glorify people, we must hear each other’s stories about giving or else our people will not learn to give.

Blessed is the man who has the gift of making friends; for it is one of God’s best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of oneself, and seeing and appreciating whatever is noble and living in another man.

At the root of all misery is unfulfilled desire.

If you complain to someone, you assume that it’s someone who really cares about you.

My wife is retired and encouraged me to retire while my health was good so I could enjoy these years.

Jealousy is not there to encourage you to make someone fail, but there to encourage one to do more than the one they envy.

Mind your own business; The best statement that any wise person can see as encouragement and best advice ever.

We can do away with ignorance, if we take it upon ourselves to encourage each other to use our intelligence.

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

Elevate your inside game. A negative attitude is below the horizon…a place for lonesome hearts.

Fight on, brave knights! Man dies, but glory lives! Fight on; death is better than defeat! Fight on brave knights! for bright eyes behold your deeds!

People work harder, longer, and more creatively if they are motivated by the intrinsic pleasure of their work. Managers must do everything they can to make the value of jobs obvious and the joy in them accessible.

What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write… Maybe the deadly notion came from liking to read so much. Maybe I was in love with the image of being a writer. Whatever. It had been a really bad idea. Because I...

In a world full of cynics, critics, and competitors, we get to choose instead to be cheerleaders for others.

I was angry at God until I came to understand that it isn’t God’s fault when people mistreat me. I still have my doubts at times, but I try to remember that God has given them the same free will that He’s given me.

Sometimes life is hard. Things go wrong—in life and in love and in business and in friendship and in health and in all the other ways that life can go wrong. And when things get tough, this is what you should do: make good art. . . . Someone on the internet thinks what you’re...

Until then we’re going to keep making memories like this, moments when we’re the only two people in the whole world. And when we get scared or lonely or confused, we’ll pull out these memories and wrap them around us and they’ll make us feel safe. And strong.

When we set about accounting for a Napoleon or a Shakespeare or a Raphael or a Wagner or an Edison or other extraordinary person, we understand that the measure of his talent will not explain the whole result, nor even the largest part of it; no, it is the atmosphere in which the talent was...

It’s just that in the Deep South, women learn at a young age that when the world is falling apart around you, it’s time to take down the drapes and make a new dress.

Remember: It costs nothing to encourage an artist, and the potential benefits are staggering. A pat on the back to an artist now could one day result in your favorite film, or the cartoon you love to get stoned watching, or the song that saves your life. Discourage an artist, you get absolutely nothing in...

I suppose it’s unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman’s joy at the sight of a superior performance.

Years and years ago, I read a great interview with Jam and Lewis, the R&B producers, in which they described what it was like to be members of Prince’s band. They’d sit down, and Prince would tell them what he wanted them to play, and they’d explain that they couldn’t–they weren’t quick enough, or good...

We are no longer in an age of needing to be approved and edited by larger companies before we are allowed to share our creations. This is the era of Do-It-Yourself. Research, investigate and try. You owe it to yourself, to your art and to the Creator to find a way to share that which...

If all we ever offer is blanket praise without any meaning behind it, kids will always seek approval because they’ll never feel satisfied. If we offer genuine encouragement for their accomplishments, they won’t need our approval; they’ll approve of themselves.

Let go of your fears and look ahead with great hope.

Lee was a born pedagogue, never happier than when his children were learning to do something the right way. It is a testament to Lee’s affection and patience that his children did not rebel. In fact, they appear to have thrived.

Do you consider yourself a blessing or just another person?

The power of great thoughts,timeless possibilities.

Encouragement is a blazing hope.