My parents were really encouraging. But I had to teach them the proper way you respond to an actor after seeing a play - regardless of whether you like their performance you tell them how great they are because they have to go on again the next night.
I have respect for the sport so I will contribute to the sport by encouraging artists.
Infants and young children are not just sitting twiddling their thumbs, waiting for their parents to teach them to read and do math. They are expending a vast amount of time and effort in exploring and understanding their immediate world. Healthy education supports and encourages this spontaneous learning.
Would you like me to give you a formula for success? It's quite simple, really. Double your rate of failure.
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door.
Not only has my latest book, The Wandering Who?, rocked the boat, but it also has managed to unite Alan Dershowitz and Abe Foxman with Ali Abunimah and Max Blumenthal. That is pretty encouraging: it means that peace may prevail after all.
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
We desperately need each other in the daily fight to follow Christ in a world that's full of sin.
God hears and He sees, and you are not alone in your struggles. Remain firm and stable, for God has your deliverance planned.
Most humans are never fully present in the now, because unconsciously they believe that the next moment must be more important than this one. But then you miss your whole life, which is never not now.
Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!
Most people with a big idea, great talent andor something to say don't get lucky at first. Or second. Or even third. It's so easy to conclude that if you're not lucky, you're not good. So persistence becomes an essential element of good, because without persistence, you never get a chance to get lucky.
Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.
Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope.