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When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.

Fred Rogers

The people we trust with important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
FRED ROGERS

Alone Friendship Help People Trust
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.
FRED ROGERS

Children Deserve Difference Help Joy Live People Play Spirit Srerious
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.
FRED ROGERS

Help Proud Time Work Yourself
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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God Human Being Love Mistake Thinking
If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of.
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Dreams Important Live Meet People
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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Boy Courtesy Help People Scary
The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.
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Broken Heart God Kingdom One Liner
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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Choose Imagination Private Share Thinking
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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Different Loneliness Solitude
Love begins with listening.
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Beginning Listen Love One Liner
Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
FRED ROGERS

Children Help Hero
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.
FRED ROGERS

Capacity Forgiveness Life Live Root Skill
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
FRED ROGERS

Human Manage Mention
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
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Exact Giving Growth Health Love Opportunity People Positive
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
FRED ROGERS

Be Yourself Positive Special
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.
FRED ROGERS

Ability Achievement Confidence Kindness Oneself Optimism Patience Relationship Requirement Tolerance

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