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We meet no ordinary people in our lives.
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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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If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it.
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Avoidance will make you feel less vulnerable in the short run, but it will never make you less afraid.
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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.
Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.
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What draws people to be friends is that they see the same truth. They share it.
Empathetic listening is an awesome medication for the hurting heart.
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.