"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
More from violin camp: I overheard a teacher praise one of her students for a performance at the camp's afternoon recital. And I saw the student, a quiet teenager, smile and stand a little taller. I also knew what this kind and generous teacher did not know -- that this student had had a particularly rough day and that the encouragement could not have been more perfectly timed.
When we listen to the best of ourselves -- including those generous and positive thoughts about others -- and act based on that goodness, we never know the impact that those actions from the heart can have on others. Sometimes, probably most times, our kindness is needed more than we know.
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