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Forgiveness is not a feeling it is a commitment.

Gary Chapman

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Gary Chapman
Age: 86
Born: 1938
Born: January 10
Author
Radio Personality
Writer
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Gary Demonte Chapman
Feelings
Positivity
Forgiveness
Commitment
Feeling

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Don't be a victim of the urgent. In the long run, much of what seems so pressing right now won't even matter. What you do with your children will matter forever.
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Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.
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All of us blossom when we feel loved and wither when we do not feel loved.
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The one who chooses to love will find appropriate ways to express that decision everyday.
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Love is always freely given. Love cannot be demanded. We can request things of each other, but we must never demand anything. Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love.
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