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 ROGERSLike 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 ROGERSThe child is in me still and sometimes not so still.
FRED ROGERSAnyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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 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 ROGERSImagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, just one kind word to another person.
FRED ROGERSPeople 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.
FRED ROGERSAnything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
FRED ROGERSI don’t think anyone can grow unless he’s loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.
FRED ROGERSHonesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
FRED ROGERSWhatever 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.
FRED ROGERSLife is for service.
FRED ROGERSMutual 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 ROGERSWhen we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
FRED ROGERSSolitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
FRED ROGERSYou 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.
FRED ROGERS