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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.

Fred Rogers

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
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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Essential Feeling Love Ourselves Positive
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
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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Far Opposite Peace War
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
When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
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Feeling Overwhelming Scary Talk Upset
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
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
Life is for service.
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Life One Liner Service
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
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
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
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
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
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
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Boy Courtesy Help People Scary
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Change Character Include Past Present
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
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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Candle Giving Inspirational Light
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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Different Loneliness Solitude
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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Human Manage Mention
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Children Help Hero
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
The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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Evil Forgiveness One Liner Stand
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
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

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