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Encouragement

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Hermann Hesse Novelist, Poet
Encouragement

"You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else."

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Barack Obama Politician
Encouragement

"Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."

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Robin Sharma Author, Speaker
Encouragement

"Every second you dwell on the past you steal from your future. Every minute you spend focusing on your problems you take away from finding your solutions."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Encouragement

"Great suffering brings with it the power of great endurance. When sorrow is deepest all the forces of patience and courage are banded together to do their duty. So while we are cowards before petty troubles, great sorrows make us brave by rousing our truer manhood."

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Paulo Coelho Writer
Encouragement

"The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return. We know that, and we are used to it. Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a part of the animals that hide in the ravines and of the water that comes from the earth. They become part of everything. They become the Soul of the World."

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Zhuangzi Philosopher
Encouragement

"Those who follow the Tao are of clear mind. They do not load their mind with anxieties and are flexible in their adjustment to external conditions."

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Joseph Conrad Novelist, Short Story Writer
Encouragement

"My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel — it is, before all, to make you see. That — and no more, and it is everything. If I succeed, you shall find there according to your deserts: encouragement, consolation, fear, charm — all you demand; and, perhaps, also that glimpse of truth for which you have forgotten to ask."

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Anne Campbell Activist
Encouragement

"Quite a few people have commented during the campaign that more help is required for small businesses. SMEs need support and encouragement in their early stages, and in Cambridge the links to the University and the huge pool of expertise here helps that."

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Rabindranath Tagore Poet, Playwright, Novelist
Encouragement

"One who has never known the turbulence of life, in whom the petals of the mysterious flower within have never opened; such a one may seem happy, may seem a saint, his single track mind may impress the multitude with its power - but he is ill equipped for life's true adventure into the infinite."

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