Don’t take away peoples ability to give to you.
Quote by Tony Robbins
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You come to understand that most people are neither for you nor against you, they are thinking about themselves. You learn that no matter how hard you try to please, some people in this world are not going to love you, a lesson that is at first troubling and then really quite relaxing.
Quote by John W. Gardner – Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare under Pres. Lyndon Johnson.
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When someone makes an obvious mistake, it’s tempting to label them with a term that’s dismissive or even hurtful. A label is permanent, a noun, a way to sort and divide. But of course, others can say precisely the same thing about us when we were uninformed, selfish or in a hurry. If it’s permanent, then it’s all of us. Perhaps instead of “you are a mistake,” it might be more accurate to say you “you made a mistake.” Starting from the place that we’re all imperfect makes it easy to find empathy, for others and ourselves.
Seth Godin’s Blog – titled “We are all goofballs”
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