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Make living your life with absolute integrity and kindness your first priority.
Richard Carlson
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Richard Carlson
Age: 65 †
Born: 1912
Born: April 29
Died: 1977
Died: November 24
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Film Actor
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Albert Lea
Minnesota
Richard Dutoit Carlson
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If we would just slow down, happiness would catch up to us.
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The trick is to be grateful when your mood is high and graceful when it is low.
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It's the recognition that other people's problems, their pain and frustrations, are every bit as real as our own - often far worse. In recognizing this fact and trying to offer some assistance, we open our hearts and greatly enhance our sense of gratitude.
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Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to listen to the entire thought of someone rather than waiting impatiently for your chance to respond.
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Try to maintain the perspective that, in time, everything disintegrates and returns to its initial form.
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Life is a process--just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.
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