Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
FRED ROGERSReal strength has to do with helping others.
More Fred Rogers Quotes
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Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
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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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Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
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A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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Real strength has to do with helping others.
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Like all of life’s important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.
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The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
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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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When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
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All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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It’s a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God.
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Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
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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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