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• You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

  Fred Rogers

  Choices, Want, Needs

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.121, Penguin

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• I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.

  Fred Rogers

  Important, Discovering, Persons

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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.

  Fred Rogers

  People, Feelings, Needs

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.17, Penguin

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• Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.

  Fred Rogers

  Differences, Space, World

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.95, Penguin

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• Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.

  Fred Rogers

  Senior, College, Differences

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.81, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as much as it is about our children's growing and that kind of growing happens little by little.

  Fred Rogers

  Baby, Children, Parent

  Fred Rogers (2005). “Mr Rogers Parenting”

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• It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.

  Fred Rogers

  Miracle

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• One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.

  Fred Rogers

  Generations, Dignity, Welfare

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.85, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

  Fred Rogers

  Proud, Helpful, Said

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.129, Penguin

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• The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe.

  Fred Rogers

  Believe, Speaks Out, Support

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.27, Penguin

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• When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Hero, Air

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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 person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.

  Fred Rogers

  People, Feelings, Who We Are

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.29, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life.

  Fred Rogers

  Helping, Who You Are

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.12, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.

  Fred Rogers

  Knowing, Soul, Honor

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.125, Penguin

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• All of us have special ones who have loved us into being

  Fred Rogers

  Special

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• Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.

  Fred Rogers

  Inspirational, Life, Our World

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• My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Heart, Giving

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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 encourage them to look within themselves for what's of value.

  Fred Rogers

  Encouragement, Acceptance, 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 to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

  Fred Rogers

  Real, People, Effort

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.52, Penguin

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• Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs.

  Fred Rogers

  Hurt, Children, Giving

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• Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.

  Fred Rogers

  Simple, Giving, Our Society

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• It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Mistake, Thinking

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.27, Penguin

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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 such a puzzle!

  Fred Rogers

  People, Feels, Puzzles

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.23, Penguin

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• It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world.

  Fred Rogers

  Dream, Our World, Differences

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 2001.

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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 all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

  Fred Rogers

  Letting Go, Skills, Roots

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.41, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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