Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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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Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
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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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The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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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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I 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.
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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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Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable.
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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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You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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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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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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Relationships are like dances in which people try to find whatever happens to be the mutual rhythm in their lives.
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The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.
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