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Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

Fred Rogers

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 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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Difference Life Love Space Trust World
When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
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Feeling Overwhelming Scary Talk Upset
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
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
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
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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Candle Giving Inspirational Light
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
A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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Inspirational Learning Love
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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Be Yourself Positive Special
The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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Connection Course Death Heaven Life
Real strength has to do with helping others.
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Help One Liner Positive Real Strength
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Children Help Hero
The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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Evil Forgiveness One Liner Stand
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
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Change Character Include Past Present

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