"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."
— Paulo Coelho (The Fifth Mountain)

"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be."
— Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I have not failed. I've simply found 10,000 things that won't work."
— Thomas Edison

"Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.
Listen to it carefully."
— Richard Bach (Illusions)

"Find a niche,...and...Scratch it!"
— Jay O'Toole

"“Remember, man does not live on bread alone: sometimes he needs a little buttering up.”


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— John C. Maxwell

"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."
— Karen Marie Moning (Faefever)

"Encouragement requires empathy and seeing the world from your spouse's perspective. We must first learn what is important to our spouse. Only then can we give encouragement. With verbal encouragement, we are trying to communicate, "I know. I care. I am with you. How can I help?" We are trying to show that we believe in him and in his abilities. We are giving credit and praise."
— Gary Chapman (The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate)

"The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they while their companions slept were toiling upward in the night. "
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recollection of [the strangers'] smiles and to reflect upon the good will which provoked them for it had power to protect and to confer honor and to strengthen resolve and it had the power to heal men and to bring them to safety long after all other resources were exhausted.""
— Cormac McCarthy

"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 enough. And Prince would push them and push them until they mastered it, and then just when they were feeling pleased with themselves for accomplishing something they didn't know they had the capacity for, he'd tell them the dance steps he needed to accompany the music.

This story has stuck with me, I think, because it seems like an encapsulation of the very best and most exciting kind of creative process."
— Nick Hornby (The Polysyllabic Spree)

"Wealth and opportunities are not assets acquired, but rather they are more contained in your person, in the way you think they are."
— Lisa Washington

"GIVING - Applied tithing is so rewarding. When you give away your time, talent, and treasures you create a huge shift in your prosperity consciousness. So start where you are as you reach for where it is you want to be."
— Lisa Washington

"Observation enrich your capacity to think. Solababe"
— Sola Ogunseitan

"Never put off writing until you are better at it."
— Gary Henderson

"Feelings follow actions."
— Roxanne Henke (The Secret of Us)