Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Deep within us-no matter who we are-there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I wonder what memories of yours will persist as you go on in life. My hunch is that the most important will… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes,… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
People have said, 'Don't cry' to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, 'I'm too uncomfortable… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
We've forgotten what it's like not to be able to reach the light switch. We've forgotten a lot of the monsters that… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The underlying message of the Neighborhood is that if somebody cares about you, it's possible that you'll care about others. 'You are special, and… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
“Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
