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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
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Fred Rogers
Age: 74 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 20
Died: 2003
Died: February 27
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Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.
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I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be.
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As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time.
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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.
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If your trusted and people will allow you to share their inner gardern...what better gift?
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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.
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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.
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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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Who we are in the present includes who we were in the past.
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Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.
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Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents.
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All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!
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Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space. Every one of us is a part of that jewel. A facet of that jewel. And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal.
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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.
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I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
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Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.
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One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation.
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Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person.
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Love isn't a perfect state of caring.
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Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.
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