Discouragement Ravine

"Anger directed inward is depression."
--- Author Unknown

"As a man thinketh, so is he."
--- King Soloman

"Be liberal with encouragement."
--- Dale Carnegie

"Feeling down?
Take a kid to the zoo."
--- Author Unknown

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know of no remedy other than to pass through them quickly.
The longer we dwell on misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us."
--- Voltaire

"Make the most of the best and the least of the worst."
--- Robert Lewis Stevensen

"Obstacles are what you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
--- Author Unknown

"People ask for criticism but they only want praise."
--- Somerset Maugham

"People have a way of becoming what you encourage them to be, not what you nag them to be."
--- Scudder Parker

"Play to the Heavenly grandstands, not for worldly applause."
--- Wordsworth

"Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody."
--- Benjamin Franklin

The knife of spiritual masochism is provided by Satan ? he waits for us to lose hope and hands us the knife.
--- David A Christensen (paraphrased)

"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of Hell, a hell of Heaven."
--- Milton; "Paradise Lost"

"We often see only the ebb of the advancing wave and are thus discouraged."
--- Robert E Lee

"When you are depressed, you wear a pair of eyeglasses with special lenses that filter out anything positive."
--- David D Burns; "Feeling Good"

"You must never give me the praise, it belongs to God."
--- Abraham Lincoln

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"Vision without work is daydreaming, and work without vision is drudgery."
--- Thomas S Monson