Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
FRED ROGERSIf you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.
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Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you’re thinking or feeling unless you share it.
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Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
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The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
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All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.
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Love is like infinity: You can’t have more or less infinity, and you can’t compare two things to see if they’re “equally infinite.” Infinity just is, and that’s the way I think love is, too.
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You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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One of my wise teachers, Dr. Orr, told me, ‘There is only one thing evil cannot stand, and that is forgiveness.
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