We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

The true felicity of life is to be free from anxieties and perturbations to understand and do our duties to God and man, and to enjoy the present without any serious dependence on the future.

O my dear wife, said he, and you the children of my bowels, I, your dear friend, am in myself undone by reason of a burden that lieth hard upon me; moreover, I am for certain informed that this our city will be burned with fire from heaven; in which fearful overthrow, both myself, with thee my wife, and you my sweet babes, shall miserably come to ruin, except (the which yet I see not) some way of escape can be found, whereby we may be delivered.

I am going to keep a positive attitude and use it to influence others.

It's a simple thing to offer encouragement, but it can have a tremendous effect on someone's life.

How do you identify someone who needs encouragement? That person is breathing. TRUETT CATHEY

Encouragement is oxygen to the soul. Good work can never be expected from a worker without encouragement. No one can ever have lived without it.

I remember asking my mum when I was about 13, 'Why are my brothers and sister so much older than me?' And she just said, 'You were a mistake.' And I laughed.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life.

The key here is to be direct. You don't want to be passive, because being passive communicates weakness. In this e-mail you are clearly making an offer. The formula might look like this:

If you are a dentist, you might say: Could your smile be better? You could be happy with your smile. Schedule an appointment today.