When a person is going through hell, and she encounters someone who went through hellish hell and survived, then she can say, 'Mine is not so bad as all that. She came through, and so can I.'
Every now and then I meet someone certain of personal greatness. I want to pat this person on the shoulder and mutter comforting words: "Things will get better! You won't always feel so depressed! Cheer up!"
Love falls to earth, rises from the ground, pools around the afflicted. Love pulls people back to their feet. Bodies and souls are fed. Bones and lives heal. New blades of grass grow from charred soil. The sun rises.
There's not someone who tells you how adorable you are and rubs your head and goes into a crowded press conference and stands at the back and winks at you so that you think, 'I can get through this.'
When I was a kid, there were some people around me who were a bad influence. When I met my girlfriend Sofia, who is now my wife, I think it all changed. She was very important for me, because she steered me back on to the path I wanted to be on.
The beautiful thing about encouragement is that anybody can do it.
Encouragement is awesome. It (can) actually change the course of another person's day, week, or life.
I don't have it in my heart to condemn people. I'm here to encourage them. I see myself more as a coach, as a motivator to help them experience the life God has for us.
Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.
I wasn't born into a family that told me that I wasn't capable of what my brother was capable of. I can do anything.
I've never known about anyone being helped by being told how wretched, miserable, sinful, and evil they are.
Set your compass to beauty, humor, and grief; stay the course no matter what, and I'll support you with everything I've got.
Whether it was audition after audition or facing media with little exposure, there were times I hit rock bottom, but then, I am not the one to break. Support of my family helped me sail through those tough times.
Yonkers made me strong and made me believe in myself, because so many people would doubt you and not believe. There are people that would believe in you, but the environment was so harsh, nobody wanted you to get out, you know?
I'm a mom, and I'm always looking for ways to encourage, support, and embolden my son to help make him believe in himself.
Praise, of all things, is the most powerful excitement to commendable actions, and animates us in our enterprises.
