black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit. It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Fred Rogers

Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
FRED ROGERS

Different Loneliness Solitude
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
FRED ROGERS

Essential Feeling Love Ourselves Positive
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.
FRED ROGERS

Dreams Important Live Meet People
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
FRED ROGERS

Assignment Attractive Goodness Tough Try
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
FRED ROGERS

Change Character Include Past Present
The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
FRED ROGERS

Connection Course Death Heaven Life
The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted.
FRED ROGERS

Broken Heart God Kingdom One Liner
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.
FRED ROGERS

Easy Enemy Forgiveness Friendship Love People Strange
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
FRED ROGERS

Far Opposite Peace War
Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.
FRED ROGERS

Capable Love People
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.
FRED ROGERS

Help Proud Time Work Yourself
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.
FRED ROGERS

Acceptance Active Love Noun Perfection Person She Strive Struggle
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.
FRED ROGERS

Comparison Equality Infinite Love
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.
FRED ROGERS

Achievement Feeling Need People Sense World Worth
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
FRED ROGERS

Be Yourself Positive Special
Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect.
FRED ROGERS

Clue Human Being Perfection Situation

When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit. It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

When we treat children’s play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that’s to be found in the creative spirit. It’s the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Fred Rogers Quotes