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You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
Fred Rogers
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Fred Rogers
Age: 74 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 20
Died: 2003
Died: February 27
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I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world.
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Perhaps we think that we won't find another human being inside that person. Perhaps we think that there are some people in this world who I can't ever communicate with, and so I'll just give up before I try. And how sad it is to think that we would give up on any other creature who's just like us.
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Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.
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Some days, doing the best we can may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.
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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 to have a dog for a companion. Well it was good for me, but it was only many years after she died that I began to understand how good it was, and why.
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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.
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What interests me so much about the characters of the Bible is that they make mistakes but God uses them anyway, in important ways. Nobody's perfect, but God can even use our imperfection.
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