If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person. — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another.… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
It is one of the paradoxes of parenting, and often a painful paradox, that even as our children need us for love… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift? — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Most of us, I believe, admire strength... Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words like aggression or even… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and… — 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
My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it… — 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
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