#encourage

She smiled thoughtfully. “I think Jackson was like a lost puppy. He needed purpose, someone to believe in him and love him despite his bullshit. But he didn’t have that, so he just went around humping everyone’s leg and peeing everywhere. Then you came along and he thought he found that owner that would give him that purpose—something that would make him feel needed—but you chose the fancy pet store puppy instead, so he went back to peeing on everything and destroying all the furniture.” “Um, Whit...is there a point to this?” “We all need someone to believe in us. It helps us see our full potential. You were that someone to believe in him. I think he’ll be a new man because of it.” “So you’re saying I rescued a lost puppy, and now he’ll become a topnotch show dog because I’m just so amazing?” “Exactly.” “You have such an eloquent way with words.” “No shit, right?” “Precisely.” -Emma and Whitney ↗

— Rachael Wade

#encouragement #love #support #love

If you're alive, you're creative. ↗

— Patti Digh

#creativity #encouragement-and-attitude #attitude

Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts... ↗

— Robert Fulghum

#spirit

Temptation is not to be feared, but controlled. ↗

— Deborah Brodie

#inspirational #inspirational

Say NO to negativity and say YES to positivity. Negativity has no place in your life. ↗

— Stephanie Lahart

#positive-thinking #attitude

Cultivate an optimistic mind, use your imagination, always consider alternatives, and dare to believe that you can make possible what others think is impossible. ↗

— Rodolfo Costa

#optimism #positive-attitude #positive-thinking #success #attitude

Nature never repeats herself, and the possibilities of one human soul will never be found in another. ↗

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#nature

In South Africa, we could not have achieved our freedom and just peace without the help of people around the world, who through the use of non-violent means, such as boycotts and divestment, encouraged their governments and other corporate actors to reverse decades-long support for the Apartheid regime. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#africa #apartheid #around #corporate #could

Again and again, I've seen Bush turn a blind eye as his henchmen have leveled zealous attacks against his political enemies - assaults which the president himself has sometimes directly encouraged. ↗

— Paul Begala

#against #assaults #attacks #blind #blind eye

But, at the same time, I think that there is room for economic stimulus in terms of accelerated depreciation to encourage businesses to invest and to grow and ultimately to hire more people again. ↗

— John Breaux

#businesses #depreciation #economic #encourage #grow