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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.

Fred Rogers

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
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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Human Manage Mention
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
Love begins with listening.
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Beginning Listen Love One Liner
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
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
Real strength has to do with helping others.
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Help One Liner Positive Real Strength
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
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
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
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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Gift Honesty Positive
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
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
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
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
The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.
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Inspirational Love Teacher World
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
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
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
Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
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Beginning Ending Inspirational Life Philosophy Thinking
The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.
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Broken Heart God Kingdom One Liner
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
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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Far Opposite Peace War
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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Children Deserve Difference Help Joy Live People Play Spirit Srerious

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