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• The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

  Fred Rogers

  Self, Generosity, Giving

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.92, Penguin

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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 other is hallowed ground.

  Fred Rogers

  Space, People, Trying

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• A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.

  Fred Rogers

  Love Of Learning

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• I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.

  Fred Rogers

  Average, Two, Use

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

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• What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

  Fred Rogers

  Mean, Helping Others, Winning

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• In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.

  Fred Rogers

  Love You, Grateful, Eye

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

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• There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

  Fred Rogers

  Self Esteem, Self Confidence, Self Love

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

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• It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?

  Fred Rogers

  Beautiful, Neighbor, Mines

  "Won't You Be My Neighbor?" (song) (1967)

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• I like you just the way you are.

  Fred Rogers

  I Like You, Way, Neighborhood

  Senate Statement on PBS Funding, delivered 1 May 1969

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• The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

  Fred Rogers

  God, Purpose, World

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.83, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.

  Fred Rogers

  Ears, Mouths, Speak

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.91, Penguin

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• Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

  Fred Rogers

  Opportunity, Knowing, People

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.

  Fred Rogers

  Simple, Interesting, Essentials

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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 become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.

  Fred Rogers

  Fear, Grief, Communication

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

  Fred Rogers

  Love Is, Things In Life, People

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.34, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.

  Fred Rogers

  Powerful, Silence, Important

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• You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.

  Fred Rogers

  Looks, Feels, Acceptable

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

  Fred Rogers

  Giving, Want, Persons

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• We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

  Fred Rogers

  Thinking, Trying, World

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• It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!

  Fred Rogers

  Believe, Fall, Opposites

  Fred Rogers (2013). “Life's Journeys According to Mister Rogers: Things to Remember Along the Way”, p.31, Hachette UK

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• A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, "Do you know your trade?" "Yes, sir!" the young man replied proudly. "Have you ever made a mistake?" the older man inquired. "No, sir!" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. "Then there's no way I'm going to hire you," said the master carpenter, "because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it.

  Fred Rogers

  Jobs, Mistake, Men

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.59, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Parenting, Moon

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• Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.

  Fred Rogers

  Honesty, Trying, Painful

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.26, Penguin

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• In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.

  Fred Rogers

  Appreciate, Sacred, Neighbor

  Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 2001.

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• If it's mentionable, it's manageable.

  Fred Rogers

  Healing, Conflict, Ifs

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