Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.
FRED ROGERSEveryone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.
More Fred Rogers Quotes
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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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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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Real strength has to do with helping others.
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The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.
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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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Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
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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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Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
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All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
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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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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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The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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Love 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.
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