Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
FRED ROGERSWhen I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
More Fred Rogers Quotes
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Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.
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Love begins with listening.
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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit. It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.
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Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love.
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I hope you’re proud of yourself for the times you’ve said “yes,” when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.
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Love is like infinity: You can’t have more or less infinity, and you can’t compare two things to see if they’re “equally infinite.” Infinity just is, and that’s the way I think love is, too.
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You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.
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Real strength has to do with helping others.
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Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
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People have said ‘don’t cry’ to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is ‘I’m too uncomfortable when you show feelings.
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, “Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.
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There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
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Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
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The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
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