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  • 24 Hours
  • 24 Things
  • A Bag of Cookies
  • Potatoes, Eggs and Coffee Beans
  • 4 Basic Management Lessons
  • Seven Wonders of the World
  • Count Your Blessings
  • Heaven and Hell
  • The Tortoise and The Hare
  • Nature to Save
  • I Thought You Could Help
  • Living In Grace
  • In the Course of the Year
  • Genesis
  • I Love You Anyway
  • Love Thyself

    • Love Thyself


    To my children, and to theirs

    One day, a child of mine came home in tears.
    Another child had been mean to him and hurt his feelings.

    I want to say now, as I said then:
    When a person doesn't like you, or is mean to you,
    it has more to do with them than it does with you.
    Dry your tears.

    You cannot be loved by everyone, because everyone cannot love themselves.
    You can know that I will always love you.

    And the greatest gift you can give to others is to love yourself.

    If you do that, you can love others without worrying whether they will love you back.
    You will have enough love for both of you.



    Dorothy L. Dupont
    North Easton, Massachusetts

    From "Notes on the Kitchen Table"
    Compiled by Bob Greene and D.G. Fulford