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Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

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
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 people we trust with important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
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Alone Friendship Help People Trust
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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Far Opposite Peace War
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
The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.
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Broken Heart God Kingdom 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
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
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
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
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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Candle Giving Inspirational Light
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
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Difference Life Love Space Trust World
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
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
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
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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Gift Honesty Positive
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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Essential Feeling Love Ourselves Positive
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Children Help Hero
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
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
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 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 only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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Evil Forgiveness One Liner Stand
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
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

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