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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.

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
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
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
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
Love begins with listening.
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Beginning Listen Love One Liner
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Change Character Include Past Present
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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Capacity Forgiveness Life Live Root Skill
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
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
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
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
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
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
The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
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Children One Liner
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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Far Opposite Peace War

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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