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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.

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
Life is for service.
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Life One Liner Service
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
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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Capable Love People
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
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Discover Effort Lifetime Ourselves Truth Work Worth
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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Human Manage Mention
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
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Freedom Hard Honesty Pain Truth Try Worth
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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Exact Giving Growth Health Love Opportunity People Positive
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
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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Gift Honesty Positive
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
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Change Character Include Past Present
A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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Inspirational Learning Love
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
One of my wise teachers, Dr. Orr, told me, ‘There is only one thing evil cannot stand, and that is forgiveness.
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Evil Forgiveness Teacher
Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, just one kind word to another person.
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Kind Neighbor Offer People Words

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