Fred Rogers Quotes

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• Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.
• Those of us who are in this world to educate-to care for-young children have a special calling: a calling that has very little to do…
• It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to…
• I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self.
• The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can…
• For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and…
• All I know to do is to light the candle that has been given to me.
• My friendship with Mitzi was like the friendship that many children have with their pets. My mother and father thought it was "good for me"…
• I doubt that we can ever successfully impose values or attitudes or behaviors on our children certainly not by threat, guilt, or punishment. But I…
• Love begins with listening.
• You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you.
• Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.
• Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of…
• 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 prerequisite…
• As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of…
• If it's mentionable, it's manageable.
• I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable and, consequently, the greatest thing that we can…
• How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us.
• Our children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.
• I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have. Â The…

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