Fred Rogers Quotes - Page 5

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• Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime’s work, but it’s worth the effort.

  Fred Rogers

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Effort

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.9, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.

  Fred Rogers

  Love, Struggle, Acceptance

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.21, Penguin

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• When we're able to resign ourselves to the wishes that will never come true, there can be enormous energies available within us for whatever we CAN do.

  Fred Rogers

  Wish, Energy, Able

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• And those handmade presents that children often bring home from school: They have so much value! The value is that the child put whatever he or she could into making them. The way we parents respond to the giving of such gifts is very important. To the child the gift is really self, and they want so much for their selves to be acceptable, to be loved.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Home, School

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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 have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.

  Fred Rogers

  Confused, Love Is, People

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.22, Penguin

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• Kids can spot a phony a mile away.

  Fred Rogers

  Kids, Phony, Miles

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• There's no "should" or "should not" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings.

  Fred Rogers

  Believe, Choices, Feelings

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.128, Penguin

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• The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Growing Up, Lying

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Many Ways to Say I Love You: Wisdom for Parents and Children from Mister Rogers”, Hyperion

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• When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others.

  Fred Rogers

  Strong, Real, Helping Others

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.22, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• The real drama of life is never centerstage. It's always in the wings.

  Fred Rogers

  Real, Drama, Wings

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• We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Diversity, Heritage

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.102, Penguin

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• 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 with the collection of expensive possessions but has a lot to do with worth inside of heads and hearts.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Heart, Thinking

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• We're all on a journey - each one of us. And if we can be sensitive to the person who happens to be our neighbor, that, to me, is the greatest challenge as well as the greatest pleasure.

  Fred Rogers

  Journey, Challenges, Neighbor

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• I wonder if we might pledge ourselves to remember what life is really all about—not to be afraid that we're less flashy than the next, not to worry that our influence is not that of a tornado, but rather that of a grain of sand in an oyster! Do we have that kind of patience?

  Fred Rogers

  Oysters, Worry, Might

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• Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

  Fred Rogers

  Choices, Hopefully, Who You Are

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

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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 have.

  Fred Rogers

  Believe, Important, Facts

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.128, Penguin

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• 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 of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.

  Fred Rogers

  Love You, Two, Listening

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

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• Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain.

  Fred Rogers

  Relationship, Kindness, Caring

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

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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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• Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.

  Fred Rogers

  Relationship, Strong, Disappointment

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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 and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others.

  Fred Rogers

  Successful, Years, People

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.23, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I don't want to eat anything that has a mother

  Fred Rogers

  Mother, Want

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• Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.

  Fred Rogers

  Love Is, Thinking, Two

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.24, Penguin

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• There's always someone who is trying to help.

  Fred Rogers

  Trying, Helping

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• The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Needs, World

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.35, Penguin

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