Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
FRED ROGERSTry your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
FRED ROGERSIf 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.
FRED ROGERSForgiveness 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.
FRED ROGERSSuccessful people just love what they’re doing, and they love it in front of others.
FRED ROGERSLove 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 ROGERSWhen we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
FRED ROGERSAnything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
FRED ROGERSHonesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
FRED ROGERSYou make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
FRED ROGERSRelationships are like dances in which people try to find whatever happens to be the mutual rhythm in their lives.
FRED ROGERSOften when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
FRED ROGERSPeace means far more than the opposite of war.
FRED ROGERSLove 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.
FRED ROGERSImagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, just one kind word to another person.
FRED ROGERSI 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 ROGERSThe connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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