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“If we want well-being for all people, then we must share what we have with our neighbors, and they must share with their neighbors, and every recipient of kindness and charity must continue to share until all—worldwide—are partakers and benefactors of true generosity. Human well-being does not exist in consort with selfishness.”
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“How much kindness should I show?
Enough to set all hearts aglow.
Just how patient must I be?
Enough to calm the stormy sea.
How much love doth God require?
Enough to lift the heavens higher.”
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“Every day grants us opportunities to do good. Take advantage of them. Do good. Be happy.”
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“Give away kindness. Happiness will repay you.”
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“Life is determined to introduce you to your true self. Be kind.”
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“Kindness should be at the core of one’s character. Be kind purely because it is who you are.”
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“Those sweet souls who speak kind words when they could rightly criticize are the most influential beings in all the world.”
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“Always play your best cards—Love and Kindness. They trump every other card in the deck.”
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“Have I told you I love you lately?'
'Yes, my dear, when you opened my door, when you touched my cheek, when you listened to my stories, and when you warmed my drink—I heard you say it in every sweet-and-easy gesture.”
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“When you look in the mirror, smile at your own kindness.”
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“We are more likely to influence people if we are willing to minster with kindness and patience to their needs.”
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“Believing in yourself is enough, but it sure is nice when another's kind words of encouragement kiss your ear. There is genuine strength in verbal expressions of support.”
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“Sometimes you save people with your words or with acts of kindness. Other times people save you. That’s what we were meant to do on this earth—be heroes.”
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“Christmastime is when love and kindness shine at their brightest.”
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“If throughout your entire life you make no fortune; travel next to nowhere; obtain a meager education; invent nothing new; are a stranger to fame; lack talent, wit, and charm—if these things are true and yet in the heart of every human who crosses your path you plant a seed of happiness, or, at the very least, you coax a smile from the saddest faces, your life will indeed be the greatest success story ever.”
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“You live,
You grow,
You learn a lot
And think you know it all.
The sun,
So big,
So proudly hot,
It too will one day fall.”
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“We daydream to heal, to hope, to be happier. It is mental and emotional therapy. Daydreams are experiences both imagined and felt, which makes them very real to the mind and the heart. So relax. Smile. Daydream.”
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“One day she woke up hating life, how dismal and anxious and unhappy the many long years had been. In that awful moment, a choice was made. Not to give up, no, never would she give away whatever small portion of power God had granted her. Instead, she reached deep down inside herself and gathered enough magic to paint a huge smile on the world. It was a bold and daring use of her powers. She has refused to see anything else ever since.”
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“I love the way you smile at me and squeeze my hand like you never noticed the many times I let you down.”
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“When you used to think so highly of someone and then one day realize you were blind to things that screamed 'not a person of honorable character at all.'”
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“There are an abundance of things in my life that I would not have picked out for me, yet I value those items, experiences, customs, and memories because they were given to me by someone I love.”
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“We never see the full picture. We cannot know a person’s life and challenges at a glimpse.
We never hear the full story. We cannot grasp a person’s viewpoint through mere words.
We never feel the full pain. We cannot perceive a person’s heart and mind in a conversation.”
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“The choices were mine. The errors, mine. But if people only understood how those mistakes were never intended. If only they understood how I never meant to end up here. Not like this. Never this broken. Never this stained. Perhaps if they understood, they would cease to speak of me in the cold, judgmental way they do. If only one person understood.”
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“The experiences we endure as trials are what cultivate compassion in our hearts. We feel for others because we have suffered similarly. We know and empathize, having tasted the bitterness for ourselves. Sadly but truly, it is the harshest trials that tend to cultivate the deepest compassion. Trials are every person’s lot in life. You are not alone.”
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“Some people have never received compassion, only criticism. That is why criticism is all they have to hand out.”
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“If you have never suffered through it, then you don’t understand it. There are no exceptions.”
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“There are times I wish anxiety served no good purpose. That it could be surgically removed and discarded like an infected gallbladder, one that has tormented a body with constant bouts of pain. The agony is similar—so strenuously endured. What scalpel exists to carve out anxiety from both heart and mind? What prescription can subdue the inflammation? Is there a cure? Or is it somehow essential? A vital part of life that if lacking would cause us to eventually wither away. I see strength gained from it, lessons learned from it, and compassion sprout in its soil. But is there no other way? There are times I wish anxiety served no good purpose.”
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“My mind is a box,
dark and lonely, enclosed.
It is a place I cannot escape.
My mind is a box,
bright and busy, exposed.
It is a place I can cultivate.”
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“To have belief is an act of mind.
To have hope is an act of mind and heart.
To have faith is an act of mind and heart and works combined.”
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“When you worry about what others think of you and then bend to appease them, know that your life is not really yours. It belongs to the people who sway your choices because you let them.”
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“Be grateful for the woman who worries about your welfare and checks on your whereabouts because if she stops obsessing, you can bet she no longer cares.”
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“I will admit you are the finest if not the loveliest rose in the garden. But you see, my dear, I was looking for a sunflower.”
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“I don’t want to be lonely, but I don’t want to be miserable either.”
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“What does freedom mean? It means warriors are fighting for you, defenses are protecting you, and soldiers are sacrificing to preserve your ability to speak, to act, to live, and to express yourself in a world where a great many aggressors would oppress those freedoms if not for the heroic resistance preventing them.”
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“I don’t think of you as a typical beauty. I never once did.
To me your hair mimics asphalt more than the lustrous feathers of ravens. Comparing your eyes to heavenly lights seems a stretch when they are the common color of dirt. I can’t imagine you as a tall, pole-slender image; your God-given shape is right bulky.
But I never cared about such pointless things anyway.
What good have trivial attributes ever done the world?
When I look at you, I see you—or in other words, all of you that really matters. I see a kind heart and compassionate arms. I see a patient, gentle spirit abounding with love towards all of God’s creatures. I see the perfect blend of humility and strength of character. I see a wise intellect as well as an endearing sense of humor. I see all the qualities that make you the person I love, regardless of the bodily package you’re bound in.
So forgive me if I don’t think you’re beautiful, because I find you to be far superior to that worthless and pointless nonsense the world calls beauty.”
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“Don’t whisper your wishes to faraway stars,
shout them boldly at the sun.”
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“I know the pain was awful, but to never make yourself vulnerable again, to never step into areas that suggest new warmth and light, is to continue living under the cold shadow of the same awful pain.”
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“Some blessings do not look like blessings initially, but later you realize you are in fact better off the way things turned out.”
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“Repetition is an important part of learning. It is a vital factor in life lessons because each recurrence tends to challenge our earlier notions, resulting in continued contemplation and greater depths of understanding.”
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“Getting to know yourself is an ongoing process because identity is not a constant. Your self—your distinctiveness—inevitably changes over time. As you learn, you grow and transform into a different version of you, which makes it a difficult task to know yourself absolutely.”
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“If you want to be sure your love is real, erase every selfish motive and bar every possibility of repayment.”
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“Why do I love you? Because you looked into my eyes and saw me. Behind the painted beauty, the forced expressions, the practiced gestures and habitual politeness, you saw me—the pure, vulnerable core that is my true essence. Somehow, in a kind but knowing glimpse you stripped away the façade, and I will never forget the relief it was to finally be seen.”
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“When a monster grows quiet and crumbles to the ground weeping, you feel sorry for him. You may approach with caution and hope, whispering words of peace. But in the morning he will rise to his full height, roaring and stomping and baring his sharp teeth because he is, after all, a monster.”
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“One of the most troubling facts I have had to accept is that people are not all angel or all devil. They are both good and awful to varying degrees and in varying circumstances. On any given day, dependent upon the situation, you will be confronted by either the devil of a person or the angel of the same person or a curious mix of both. This means you can, and most likely will, love and hate the same individual alternately throughout your life. This truth I find painfully heartrending.”
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“You would think this was common sense, but apparently not: quit doing things you do not want others to do. You will never bring about desired change when your example screams contrarily.”
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“Never assume that because you cannot see the answer, there is no answer. There is. Give it prayer. Give it faith. Give it patience. Give it time. You will have your answer eventually.”
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“Patience is not only a virtue, it is power, it is influence, it is the richest soil for personal growth.”
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“Maybe who God wants me to be is the type of person born from sorrows. Maybe a life of hardships is the only way of becoming that remarkable person.”
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“To think for yourself.
To choose for yourself.
To speak for yourself.
To act for yourself.
To be yourself.
These are human rights worth defending.”
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“Liberty, once tasted, is an incurable addiction.”
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