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Fame is a four-letter word and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it.

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Fred Rogers
Age: 74 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 20
Died: 2003
Died: February 27
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Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.
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It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives.
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When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.
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Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.
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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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We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.
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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.
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When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping. To this day, especially in times of disaster, I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers – so many caring people in this world
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You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.
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If it's mentionable, it's manageable.
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Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won’t break.
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You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
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The connections we make in the course of a life--maybe that's what heaven is.
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I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they own or any skill that they learn. They need to feel they enhance the life of someone else, that they are needed. Who, better than parents, can let them know that?
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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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It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.
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Peace means far more than the opposite of war.
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Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.
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