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All posts tagged with “Today's Encouragement.”



Today's Encouragement: You must let suffering speak, if you want ...

04/18/25 at 03:00 AM

You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth. ~ Cornel West

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Today's Encouragement: With the story of your life, ...

04/17/25 at 03:00 AM

With the story of your life, you don't get to write the whole book, just your character. ~ Olivia Munn

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Today's Encouragement: I have an advance directive, not because ...

04/16/25 at 03:00 AM

I have an advance directive, not because I have a serious illness, but because I have a family. ~ Ira Byock, MD

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Today's Encouragement: It's April 15, tax day ...

04/15/25 at 03:00 AM

It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good. ~ Conan O'Brien

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Today's Encouragement

04/14/25 at 03:00 AM

Don’t give up. Don’t ever give up. ~Jim Valvano, NC State University basketball coach

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Today's Encouragement

04/13/25 at 03:00 AM

"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected." ~ Steve Jobs

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Today's Encouragement

04/12/25 at 03:55 AM

The true test of character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do. ~ John Holt

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Today's Encouragement: In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then ...

04/11/25 at 03:00 AM

In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. ~ Albert Schweitzer

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Today's Encouragement: How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before ...

04/10/25 at 03:00 AM

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank

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Today's Encouragement: Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters ...

04/09/25 at 03:00 AM

Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted with important matters. ~ Albert Einstein

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Today's Encouragement: The scars you share become ...

04/08/25 at 03:00 AM

The scars you share become lighthouses for other people who are headed for the same rocks you hit. ~ Jon Acuff

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Today's Encouragement: Not everything that can be counted ...

04/07/25 at 03:00 AM

Not everything that can be counted counts.Not everything that counts can be counted.~ by William Bruce Cameron, Informal Sociology: A Casual Introduction to Sociological Thinking (1963)Quote used by Dr. Bill Hoy 4/5/25 as a keynote for the 2025 Association for Death Education and Counseling Conference (ADEC). Dr. Hoy is a faithful reader of this newsletter. Thanks, Bill!

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Today's Encouragement: You have to expect things of yourself before ...

04/06/25 at 03:00 AM

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them. ~ Michael Jordan

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Today's Encouragement

04/05/25 at 03:00 AM

Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you'll start having positive results.  ~Willie Nelson

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Today's Encouragement: Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, ...

04/04/25 at 03:00 AM

Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you discover who you are. ~ Bernice Johnson Reagon

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Today's Encouragement: I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: ...

04/03/25 at 03:00 AM

I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really are those who will have sought and found how to serve. ~ Albert Schweitzer

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Today's Encouragement: If we assume we've arrived, we stop ...

04/02/25 at 03:00 AM

If we assume we've arrived, we stop searching; we stop developing. ~ Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell

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Today's Encouragement: It is human nature to think wisely and act ...

04/01/25 at 03:00 AM

It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. ~ Anatole France

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Today's Encouragement: "Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?" ...

03/31/25 at 03:00 AM

"Is the spring coming?" he said. "What is it like?" ... "It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine." ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett, author, The Secret Garden

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Today's Encouragement

03/30/25 at 03:00 AM

I share with you the agony of your grief, by Howard Thurman in "Meditations of the Heart"  I share with you the agony of your grief,  The anguish of your heart finds echo in my own...  This I do in quiet ways, that on your lonely path you may not walk alone.Click the link above to read the full poem.

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Today's Encouragement

03/29/25 at 03:55 AM

Bitterness is like a cancer that enters the soul. ~ Sir Terry Waite

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Today's Encouragement: Basketball doesn't care ...

03/28/25 at 03:00 AM

Basketball doesn’t care what color your skin is. It doesn’t care what language you speak or what religion you practice. It doesn’t care if you’re big or small, fast or slow. It just asks you to play, to complete, to lose with dignity, to win with humility. ~ Coach Jim Calhoun, Basketball Hall of Fame and 3-time NCAA champion

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Today's Encouragement: Where all think alike, ...

03/27/25 at 03:00 AM

Where all think alike, no one thinks very much. ~ Walter Lippman

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Today's Encouragement: No one can grow if ...

03/26/25 at 03:00 AM

No one can grow if he does not accept his smallness.  ~ Pope Francis

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Today's Encouragement: Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ...

03/25/25 at 03:00 AM

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary. ~ Diane Keaton

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