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This book is a compilation of thoughtful and uplifting quotations and stories that celebrate the unique qualities of every individual. It serves as a gentle reminder of the importance of self-acceptance and the beauty of being different. Perfect for readers seeking a touch of warmth and wisdom in their daily lives.
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“It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!”
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“Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They can lean, stand, and be leaned upon, because they know what a good feeling it can be to feel needed.”
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“You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.”
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“One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.”
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“I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.”
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“I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.”
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“I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities.”
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“There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it.”
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“I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they own or any skill that they learn. They need to feel they enhance the life of someone else, that they are needed. Who, better than parents, can let them know that?”
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“Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way.”
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“We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.”
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“Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.”
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“Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.”
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“Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.”
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“I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.”
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“Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . .”
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“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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“It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.”
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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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“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. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
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“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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“The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.”
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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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“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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“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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“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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“In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.”
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“In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.”
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“We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.”
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“What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output.”
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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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“Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.”
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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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“Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others.”
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“Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.”
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“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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“When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the façade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.”
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“There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.”
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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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“The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.”
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“Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.”
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“As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.”
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“I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. The same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there.”
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“How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?”
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“It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.”
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“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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“There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.”
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“We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.”
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“The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.”
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“We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.”
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