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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 Rogers

It’s a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.
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God Human Being Love Mistake Thinking
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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Gift Honesty Positive
I don’t think anyone can grow unless he’s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.
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Appreciation Exact Love Thinking
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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Human Manage Mention
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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Different Loneliness Solitude
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
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
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Achievement Feeling Need People Sense World Worth
Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, just one kind word to another person.
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Kind Neighbor Offer People Words
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 only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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Evil Forgiveness One Liner Stand
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
Relationships are like dances in which people try to find whatever happens to be the mutual rhythm in their lives.
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Dance Finding Mutual People Relationship Rhythm Try
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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Candle Giving Inspirational Light
Real strength has to do with helping others.
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Help One Liner Positive Real Strength
When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit. It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.
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Children Deserve Difference Help Joy Live People Play Spirit Srerious
I hope you’re proud of yourself for the times you’ve said “yes,” when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.
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Help Proud Time Work Yourself

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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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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