Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
FRED ROGERSThe world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
More Fred Rogers Quotes
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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.
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The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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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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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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The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.
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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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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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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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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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When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary.
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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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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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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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