50+ Fred Rogers Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
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Freedom Hard Honesty Pain Truth Try Worth
Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Change Character Include Past Present
The best teacher in the world is somebody who loves what he or he does & loves in front of you.
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Inspirational Love Teacher World
The people we trust with important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
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Alone Friendship Help People Trust
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.
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Children Deserve Difference Help Joy Live People Play Spirit Srerious
Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.
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Discover Effort Lifetime Ourselves Truth Work Worth
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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Capacity Forgiveness Life Live Root Skill
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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Cry Emotional People Uncomfortable
A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.
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Inspirational Learning Love
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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Different Loneliness Solitude
Whatever 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.
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Choose Imagination Private Share Thinking
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
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Be Yourself Positive Special
The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.
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Evil Forgiveness One Liner Stand
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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Appreciation Exact Love Thinking
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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God Human Being Love Mistake Thinking
Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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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.
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Capable Love People
There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
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Freedom Growth Life Normal Pain Problem Wrestling
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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Help Proud Time Work Yourself
The connections we make in the course of a life, maybe that’s what heaven is.
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Connection Course Death Heaven Life
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.
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Difference Life Love Space Trust World
Life is for service.
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Life One Liner Service
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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Acceptance Active Love Noun Perfection Person She Strive Struggle
Love begins with listening.
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Beginning Listen Love One Liner
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
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Gift Honesty Positive
All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
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Candle Giving Inspirational Light
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That’s one of the toughest assignments you’ll ever be given.
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Assignment Attractive Goodness Tough Try

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