Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
FRED ROGERSThe people we trust with important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
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The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.
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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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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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Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you’re thinking or feeling unless you share it.
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The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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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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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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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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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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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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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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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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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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The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.
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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.
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