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Fred Rogers talks about how learning to depend on others can later become comfortable independence and caring for those who rely on you. He says forgiving friends can be harder than forgiving enemies. He believes talking about feelings makes them less overwhelming and easier to handle.

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Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.

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It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are…

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How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.

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I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.

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The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

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It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.

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If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?

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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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As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is,…

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Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the…

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People have said, 'Don't cry' to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, 'I'm too uncomfortable…

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All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to…

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We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who…

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Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people…

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Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people…

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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for…

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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for…

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Deep within us-no matter who we are-there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of…

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Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in…

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What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly…

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I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we…

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Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of…

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It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition,…

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When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in…

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Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or…

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What really matters is not just our own winning but helping other people to win, too.

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The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each…

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The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have…

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We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It's easy to say "It's not my child, not my…

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It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to…

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Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been 'You are an…

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Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they…

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The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing…

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If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and…

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The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to…

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One way to think about play, is as the process of finding new combinations for known things--combinations that may yield new formsof…

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Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have…

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Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on…

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Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They…

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Real strength has to do with helping others.

The greatest gift that you can give another person is to gracefully receive whatever it is that they want to give us.

The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we…

“Everyone longs to be loved. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of…

Attitudes are caught, not taught.

Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to…

If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered…

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…