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Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our natural lives.
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Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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No matter how simplified or complicated life gets, it can make us miserable or it can wake us up.
Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.
A bird was lying on his back in the road with his feet in the air. A horse saw him and asked, “What’re you doing?” The sparrow said, “I’m helping hold back the darkness.” The horse sneered and said, “Yeah, right,” and the sparrow said, “One does what one can.”
The miracle is that your children will love you with all your imperfections if you can do the same for them.
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If only our passion to understand others were as great as our passion to be understood. Were this so, all our apologies would be truly meaningful and healing.
When forgiveness experts talk in binary language (’You either forgive the wrongdoer or you are a prisoner of your own anger and hate’), they are collapsing the messy complexity of human emotions into a simplistic dichotomous equation.