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The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

Fred Rogers

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.
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Acceptance Active Love Noun Perfection Person She Strive Struggle
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Children Help Hero
Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.
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Capable Love People
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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Evil Forgiveness Teacher
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
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Discover Effort Lifetime Ourselves Truth Work Worth
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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Comparison Equality Infinite Love
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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Essential Feeling Love Ourselves Positive
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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Boy Courtesy Help People Scary
The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.
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Inspirational Love Teacher World
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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Choose Imagination Private Share Thinking
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
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Freedom Growth Life Normal Pain Problem Wrestling
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
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Assignment Attractive Goodness Tough Try
A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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Inspirational Learning Love
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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Clue Human Being Perfection Situation
Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
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Ability Achievement Confidence Kindness Oneself Optimism Patience Relationship Requirement Tolerance
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.
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Easy Enemy Forgiveness Friendship Love People Strange

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