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There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

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
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
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
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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Human Manage Mention
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
A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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Inspirational Learning Love
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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Be Yourself Positive Special
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
Life is for service.
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Life One Liner Service
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
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
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Assignment Attractive Goodness Tough Try
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
The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
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Children One Liner
I don’t think anyone can grow unless he’s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.
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Appreciation Exact Love Thinking
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
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

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.

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