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We cannot make another person change his or her steps to an old dance, but if we change our own steps, the dance no longer can continue in the same predictable pattern.
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Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others.
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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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People’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.
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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Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means at the point of highest reality.
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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