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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.
Fred Rogers
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Fred Rogers
Age: 74 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 20
Died: 2003
Died: February 27
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Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They can lean, stand, and be leaned upon, because they know what a good feeling it can be to feel needed.
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Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.
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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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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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Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors.
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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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If the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!
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Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak.
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There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.
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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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Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others.
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Kids can spot a phony a mile away.
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