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.
FRED ROGERSWho we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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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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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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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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Life is for service.
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When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
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The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.
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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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Real strength has to do with helping others.
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The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.
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Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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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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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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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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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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Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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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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The people we trust with important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
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There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
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The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
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Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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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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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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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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Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
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