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.
FRED ROGERSYou 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.
More Fred Rogers Quotes
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Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, just one kind word to another person.
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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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Real strength has to do with helping others.
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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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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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The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.
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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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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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Relationships are like dances in which people try to find whatever happens to be the mutual rhythm in their lives.
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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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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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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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Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
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