If we had no faults of our own, we should not take so much pleasure in noticing those in others and judging their lives as either black or white, good or bad. We all live our lives in shades of gray.

—Shannon L. Alder

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No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes.

—Shannon L. Alder

You can change the place you live, your clothes, your interests, your friends, your religion and even your partner. However, if you forgot to change your mind, attitude, beliefs about the world, how you treat people and how you plan to be different this time around, why did you even bother?

—Shannon L. Alder

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Nostalgia has a way of blocking the reality of the past.

—Shannon L. Alder

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People have set moral standards for me my entire life, yet they have always left off the ones that they couldn't keep.

—Shannon L. Alder

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Forget what hurt you in the past, but never forget what it taught you. However, if it taught you to hold onto grudges, seek revenge, not forgive or show compassion, to categorize people as good or bad, to distrust and be guarded with your feelings then you didn't learn a thing.

—Shannon L. Alder

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We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones.

—Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Every human being's essential nature is perfect and faultless, but after years of immersion in the world we easily forget our roots and take on a counterfeit nature.

Never find fault with the absent.

—Alexander Pope

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All good qualities in a child are the result of environment, while all the bad ones are the result of poor heredity on the side of the other parent.

—Elinor Goulding Smith

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If you wish to be loved, show more of your faults than your virtues.

—Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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