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• I am encouraged President Obama now says he will fulfill his constitutional obligation to seek authorization for any potential military action in Syria. This is the most important decision any President or any Senator must make, and it deserves vigorous debate

  Rand Paul

  Military, Decision, Important

  FaceBook post by Rand Paul from Aug 31, 2013

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• I run great risk of failing. It may be that I shall encounter ruin where I look for reputation and a career of honor. The chances are perhaps more in favour of ruin than of success. But, whatever may be the chances, I shall go on as long as any means of carrying on the fight are at my disposal.

  Anthony Trollope

  Success, Running, Mean

  Anthony Trollope (1865). “Can You Forgive Her?”, p.46

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• No matter what the issue is, don't try to justify why you don't feel good. And don't try to justify why you should feel differently. Don't try to blame whatever it is you think the reason is that's keeping you from feeling good. All of that is wasted effort. Just try to feel better right now.

  Esther Hicks

  Healing, Feel Better, Thinking

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• Never give up just because it gets hard

  Joseph Simmons

  Giving Up, Giving, Never Giving Up

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• Behind the cloud the sun is still shining.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Uplifting, Healing, Hard Times

  Abraham Lincoln (2008). “The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln”, p.191, Wildside Press LLC

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• If you're an underdog, mentally disabled, physically disabled, if you don't fit in, if you're not as pretty as the others, you can still be a hero.

  Steve Guttenberg

  Uplifting, Hero, Autism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If life gives you lemons, make some kind of fruity juice.

  Conan O'Brien

  Funny, Life, Uplifting

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• Stand through life firm as a rock in the sea, undisturbed and unmoved by its ever-rising waves

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Rocks, Sea, Rising

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• (We need) leadership that is tough enough to demand a great deal from everyone, and leadership that is tender enough to encourage the heart.

  Thomas J. Sergiovanni

  Educational, Heart, Needs

  Thomas J. Sergiovanni (1996). “Leadership for the Schoolhouse: How Is It Different Why Is It Important”, Jossey-Bass

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• Cancer is just a word that creates fear. Forget about that word, and let's just focus on balancing your body. All illnesses are just symptoms of imbalance. No illness can remain when your entire system is in balance.

  Anita Moorjani

  Cancer, Focus, Balance

  FaceBook post by Anita Moorjani from Apr 19, 2012

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• In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

  Rick Warren

  Encouragement, Pain, People

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from May 22, 2013

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• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Uplifting

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• Brokenness is often the road to breakthrough. Be encouraged.

  Tony Evans

  Breakthrough, Be Encouraged, Brokenness

  Twitter post from Sep 06, 2014

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• No leader can possibly have all the answers . . . .The actual solutions about how best to meet the challenges of the moment have to be made by the people closest to the action. . . .The leader has to find the way to empower those frontline people, to challenge them, to provide them with the resources they need, and then to hold them accountable. As they struggle with . . . this challenge, the leader becomes their coach, teacher, and facilitator. Change how you define leadership, and you change how you run a company.

  Steve Miller

  Leadership, Running, Teacher

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• The most simple way to stay encouraged is to feed your heart on what He is doing, not on what He hasn't done. If you can't see what He is doing, feed on what He has done in the past.

  Bill Johnson

  Heart, Past, Simple

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• The universe will always remove what is no longer serving you.

  Gabrielle Bernstein

  Remove, Serving, Universe

  Twitter post from Feb 18, 2013

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• Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

  Timothy Keller

  Fire, Suffering, Walks

  Timothy Keller (2013). “Walking with God through Pain and Suffering”, p.16, Penguin

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• The waiting is the hardest part, every day you get one more yard. You take it on faith, you take it to the heart, the waiting is hardest part.

  Tom Petty

  Heart, Advice, Waiting

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• I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

  Woodrow Wilson

  4th Of July, Men, Safety

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1988). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• Hope is the foundational quality of all change, and encouragement is the fuel which keeps hope alive.

  Zig Ziglar

  Encouragement, Quality, Alive

  FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Sep 30, 2014

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  Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

  Jim Valvano

  Basketball, Uplifting, Cancer

  Arthur Ashe Courage Award Acceptance Address, delivered 3 March 1993

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• Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Inspiring, Travel, Positivity

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Estragon: I can't go on like this.
  Vladimir: That's what you think.

  Samuel Beckett

  Moving On, Thinking, Goes On

  "Waiting for Godot". Play by Samuel Beckett, 1952.

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• Nothing worthwhile is easy.

  Daniel Taylor

  Easy, Worthwhile

  Daniel Taylor (1986). “The myth of certainty: the reflective Christian and the risk of commitment”, W Pub Group

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• We can be encouraged knowing that our daily actions and words are declaring Christ to the world.

  David Jeremiah

  God, Christian, Religious

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