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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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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A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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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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Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, just one kind word to another person.
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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.
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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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You 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.
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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 world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
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Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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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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Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
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