Friday 19 December 2014

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT 6

- Optimism supplies the basic energy of civilization.  Optimism doesn't wait on facts.  It deals with prospects.  Pessimism is a waste of time (Norman Cousins)

- Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plan

- Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless (Mother Teresa)

- Don't be content with being average.  Average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top

- I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble (Rudyard Kipling)

- No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle, pure and good without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness (Phillips Brooks)

- The things our friends do with us and for us form a portion of our lives; they strengthen our personality (Goethe)

- God has given us two hands - one to receive with and the other to give with.  We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for giving (Billy Graham)

- The butterfly counts not month, but moments, and yet has time enough

- Good habits are not made on birthday, nor Christian character at the New Year.  The workshop of character is everyday life.  The uneventful and commonplace hour is where the battle is lost or won (Maltbie D. Babcock)

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