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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

Life is for service.
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Life One Liner Service
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
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
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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Candle Giving Inspirational Light
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
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
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
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
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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Children Deserve Difference Help Joy Live People Play Spirit Srerious
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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Boy Courtesy Help People Scary
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
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
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Children Help Hero
A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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Inspirational Learning Love
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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Essential Feeling Love Ourselves Positive
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.
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Dreams Important Live Meet People
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
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
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
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
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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Human Manage Mention
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
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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Easy Enemy Forgiveness Friendship Love People Strange
Successful people just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.
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Love Motivational People Success Work Hard
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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Far Opposite Peace War
The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
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Children One Liner
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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Be Yourself Positive Special

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