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All posts tagged with “Today's Encouragement.”



If you can change your mind, you can ...

11/28/24 at 02:20 AM

If you can change your mind, you can change your life. ~ William James, American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States

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It is during our darkest moments that ...

11/28/24 at 02:10 AM

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light. ~  Aristotle

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The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is ...

11/28/24 at 02:05 AM

The difference between ordinary and extraordinary is that little extra. ~ Jimmy Johnson

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Rarely are opportunities presented to you in the perfect way ...

11/28/24 at 02:05 AM

Rarely are opportunities presented to you in the perfect way, in a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. ... Opportunities, the good ones, they're messy and confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you. ~ Susan Wojcicki, a creator of Google in 1998 and CEO of YouTube 2014-2023

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If you want to be the best, you have to do things that ...

11/28/24 at 02:00 AM

If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do. ~ Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016. Click here for his Foundation, with its vision "to save lives and help build healthier families."

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Twenty years from now you will be ...

11/28/24 at 01:40 AM

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain

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When you first get a hill in sight ...

11/28/24 at 01:30 AM

When you first get a hill in sight, look at the top of it only once. Then imagine yourself at the bottom of the other side. ~ Florence Griffeth Joyner, known as Flo-Jo, Olympic runner 1984 and 1988, in Time's 2020 list of the most influential women of the past century

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I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than ...

11/28/24 at 01:25 AM

I'd rather regret the risks that didn't work out than the chances I didn't take at all. ~ Simone Biles, Olympic medalist, gymnastics, 2016, 2021, 2024 

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You have brains in your head ...

11/28/24 at 01:20 AM

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. ~ Dr. Seuss, in Oh, The Places You'll Go

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I wonder if my first breath ...

11/28/24 at 01:10 AM

I wonder if my first breath was as soul-stirring to my mother as her last breath was to me. ~ Lisa Goich-Andreadis, 14 Days: A Mother, A Daughter, A Two-Week Goodbye

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There is no wisdom without ...

11/28/24 at 01:00 AM

There is no wisdom without leisure. ~ W. B. Yeat

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Today's Encouragement: When you do things from your soul ...

11/27/24 at 03:00 AM

When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy. ~ Rumi

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Today's Encouragement: Gratitude makes ...

11/26/24 at 03:00 AM

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today and creates a vision for tomorrow. ~ Melody Beattie

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Today's Encouragement: Gratitude can transform common days into ...

11/25/24 at 03:00 AM

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. ~ William Arthur Ward

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Today's Encouragement

11/24/24 at 03:00 AM

Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning. ~Albert Einstein

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Today's Encouragement

11/23/24 at 03:55 AM

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving. ~Amy Grant

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Today's Encouragement: We must find time to stop and thank the people who ...

11/22/24 at 03:00 AM

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives. ~ John F. Kennedy Editor's note: Today marks the 61st anniversary of his death, November 22, 1963. As we know too well in our end-of-life roles, death's timing often does not give us time to voice what matters most to those persons who matter most. May we all "find time to stop and thank" persons who "make a difference in our lives"--whether over the course of a lifetime or in a simple spontaneous moment. 

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Today's Encouragement: Great ideas need ...

11/21/24 at 03:00 AM

Great ideas need landing gear as well as wings. ~ C.D. Jackson

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Today's Encouragement: What you do makes a difference and ...

11/20/24 at 03:00 AM

What you do makes difference and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make. ~ Jane Goodall

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Today's Encouragement: Openness may not ...

11/19/24 at 03:00 AM

Openness may not completely disarm prejudice, but it's a good place to start. ~ Jason Collins

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Today's Encouragement: Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring ...

11/18/24 at 03:00 AM

Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person's life. ~ Jackie Chan

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Today's Encouragement

11/17/24 at 03:00 AM

Do you remember a time when you chose the harder path because it was the right thing to do. It wasn’t easy, but deep-down, you knew it was the right choice. Acting with integrity, even when it’s tough, shapes your character. ~Life Changing Quotes

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Today's Encouragement

11/16/24 at 03:55 AM

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Today's Encouragement: What we see depends mainly on ...

11/15/24 at 03:00 AM

What we see depends mainly on what we look for. ~ John Lubbock

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Today's Encouragement: Always be you ...

11/14/24 at 03:00 AM

Always be you--and learn to let go in order to grow. You owe it to yourself. ~ Vivian Martinez-Stachura

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