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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.

Fred Rogers

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
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Children Help Hero
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
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
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
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
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
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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Essential Feeling Love Ourselves Positive
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Change Character Include Past Present
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
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
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
The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
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Children One Liner
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
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

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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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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