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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.

Fred Rogers

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
Love begins with listening.
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Beginning Listen Love One Liner
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
The people we trust with important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
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Alone Friendship Help People Trust
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
Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.
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Capacity Forgiveness Life Live Root Skill
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
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
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
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
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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Essential Feeling Love Ourselves Positive
The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
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Birthday Convince Ground Old People Space Try Understand
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
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
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Choice Hope Life Need Rare Sense Time Want
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
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

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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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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