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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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• Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different.

  Fred Rogers

  Different, Problem, Knots

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.78, 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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• 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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• 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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• The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.

  Fred Rogers

  Simple, Years, Tough Times

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.39, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• The kingdom of God is for the broken hearted

  Fred Rogers

  Broken, Kingdoms, Kingdom Of God

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

  Fred Rogers

  Trying, Helping

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• 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 do believe they can be induced through relationships where parents and children are growing together. Such relationships are, I believe, build on trust, example, talk, and caring.

  Fred Rogers

  Trust, Children, Attitude

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

  Fred Rogers

  Caring, People, Scary Things

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.93, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Call them rules or call them limits, good ones, I believe, have this in common: they serve reasonable purposes; they are practical and within a child's capability; they are consistent; and they are an expression of loving concern.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Believe, Parenting

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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 be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Grandma, Past

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• Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

  Fred Rogers

  Lonely, Loneliness, Solitude

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.122, Penguin

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• I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.

  Fred Rogers

  Writing, Broken, Clubs

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