The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
FRED ROGERSWhen 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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Love begins with listening.
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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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Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
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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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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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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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Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
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The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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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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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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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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Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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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 best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.
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All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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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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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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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, just one kind word to another person.
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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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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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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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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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Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
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Life is for service.
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A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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