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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

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Fred Rogers
Age: 74 †
Born: 1928
Born: March 20
Died: 2003
Died: February 27
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Deep within us-no matter who we are-there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving.
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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.
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I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline.
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There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.
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As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults.
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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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You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.
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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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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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Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.
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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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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.
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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.
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I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given.
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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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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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When our children see us expressing our emotions, they can learn that their own feelings are natural and permissible, can be expressed, and can be talked about. That's an important thing for our children to learn.
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You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.
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