Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
FRED ROGERSLove 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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When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
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There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
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A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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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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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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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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All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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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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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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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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Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
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Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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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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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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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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The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.
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Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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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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It’s a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.
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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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Real strength has to do with helping others.
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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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Successful people just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.
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