Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Encouragement
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
~ Goethe
Correction does much, but encouragement does more.
~ Goethe
We all worry about wasting time, about the years sliding past, about what we intend to do with our lives. We shouldn’t — for there there is a divine irrelevance in the universe that defies calculation. Many men and women win through to a sense of greatness in their lives only by first stumbling and fumbling their way into patterns that gratify them and allow them to utilize their endowments to the maximum.
~ James Michener
There were two things about Mama. One is she always expected the best out of me. And the other is that then no matter what I did, whatever I came home with, she acted like it was the moon I had just hung up in the sky and plugged in all the stars. Like I was that good.
~ Barbara Kingsolver, The Bean Trees