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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.

Fred Rogers

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
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Change Character Include Past Present
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
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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Kind Kindness Positive Success Ultimate
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Children Help Hero
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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Essential Feeling Love Ourselves Positive
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
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
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
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
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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Acceptance Active Love Noun Perfection Person She Strive Struggle
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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Easy Enemy Forgiveness Friendship Love People Strange
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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Human Manage Mention
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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Be Yourself Positive Special
The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
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Children One Liner
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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Freedom Growth Life Normal Pain Problem Wrestling
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
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 world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
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Achievement Feeling Need People Sense World Worth
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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Candle Giving Inspirational Light
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
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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Birthday Convince Ground Old People Space Try Understand
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
The people we trust with important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
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Alone Friendship Help People Trust
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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God Human Being Love Mistake Thinking
Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, just one kind word to another person.
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Kind Neighbor Offer People Words
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

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