It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you. — 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
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
Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning...They have to play with what they know to be true in… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly… — 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
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
Parenting forces us to get to know ourselves better than we ever might have imagined we could--and in many new ways. .… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Children long to know that they are lovable. And there are ways that technology can help with that. But ultimately it's their… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they… — 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
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
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
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
This evening is as brief as the twinkling of an eye yet such twinklings is what eternity is made of. — Fred Rogers Copy Share
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
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
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
“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
Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any… — Fred Rogers Copy Share
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