Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
FRED ROGERSLittle by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
More Fred Rogers Quotes
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There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
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Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you’re thinking or feeling unless you share it.
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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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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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The child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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Real strength has to do with helping others.
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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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Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
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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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The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.
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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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