Love begins with listening.
FRED ROGERSFeeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
More Fred Rogers Quotes
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Life is for service.
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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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One of my wise teachers, Dr. Orr, told me, ‘There is only one thing evil cannot stand, and that is forgiveness.
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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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The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Relationships are like dances in which people try to find whatever happens to be the mutual rhythm in their lives.
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When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
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Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.
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Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
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A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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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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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
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