"If we do have realistic confidence ... if we feel secure within ourselves, we tend to experience the world as open to us and to respond appropriately to challenges and opportunities. Self-esteem empowers, energizes, motivates. It inspires us to achieve and allows us to take pleasure and pride in our achievements."

-- Nathaniel Branden

#Confidence Quotes #Self Esteem Quotes #Pride Quotes

“Why don't people believe us when we say we're simply in love?”
“Every Christian is a missionary to the extent that he or she bears witness to Godâ€™s love. Be missionaries of Godâ€™s tenderness!”
“I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.”
“Fear that man who fears not God.”
“Young men, you who have any piety at all, what sort is it? Is it a hot-house plant, which must be framed and glassed, lest March, that bold young fellow, should shake the life out.of it in his rough play among the flowers? or is it a hardy shrub, which rejoices when the wild winds course along the heather or howl above the crest of Lebanon ' We need, believe me, the bravery of godliness to bear true witness for our Master now.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1873). “Lectures and Sermons”, p.9, Adam, Stevenson
“Grief rolled across the space between us like a wash of salt water.”
“Janis Joplin didn't just sing a song, she took it over. She swallowed it whole, then sent it back through her gut and her heart.”
“Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.”

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