Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
FRED ROGERSLove 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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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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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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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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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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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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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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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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Relationships are like dances in which people try to find whatever happens to be the mutual rhythm in their lives.
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Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
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Love begins with listening.
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You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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Real strength has to do with helping others.
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