Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.

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Everybody needs a hug. It changes your metabolism.

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Find the person who will love you because of your differences and not in spite of them and you have found a lover for life.

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Life is uncharted territory. It reveals its story one moment at a time.

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Love creates an "us" without destroying the "me".

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Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.

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Those who think they know it all have no way of finding out they don't.

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Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

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Each of us is responsible for creating an environment of warmth and consideration for those we love. I have always tried to define a good day not in terms of one in which all things were made right and comfortable for me but rather, as a day in which I have been able to make another's day more loving and special for them. We must treat each other with dignity. Not because we merit it but because we grow best in thoughtfulness.

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A loving relationship is one in which the loved one is free to be himself -- to laugh with me, but never at me; to cry with me, but never because of me; to love life, to love himself, to love being loved. Such a relationship is based upon freedom and can never grow in a jealous heart

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