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One of my wise teachers, Dr. Orr, told me, ‘There is only one thing evil cannot stand, and that is forgiveness.

Fred Rogers

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
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
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Change Character Include Past Present
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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Different Loneliness Solitude
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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Acceptance Active Love Noun Perfection Person She Strive Struggle
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 we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
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Feeling Overwhelming Scary Talk Upset
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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Birthday Convince Ground Old People Space Try Understand
The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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Evil Forgiveness One Liner Stand
The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.
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Inspirational Love Teacher World
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
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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Be Yourself Positive Special
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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Clue Human Being Perfection Situation
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Children Help Hero
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
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 greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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Gift Honesty Positive
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
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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Essential Feeling Love Ourselves Positive
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
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
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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Human Manage Mention
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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Candle Giving Inspirational Light
Love begins with listening.
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Beginning Listen Love One Liner
Life is for service.
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Life One Liner Service
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

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