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Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.

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
The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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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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When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
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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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Kind Kindness Positive Success Ultimate
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
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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Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
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People have said ‘don’t cry’ to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is ‘I’m too uncomfortable when you show feelings.
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Cry Emotional People Uncomfortable
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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Be Yourself Positive Special
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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The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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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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Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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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

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