Fred Rogers
You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.Collection: Choices
If it's mentionable, it's manageable.Collection: Healing
We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are.Collection: Different
Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world.Collection: Differences
Silence is so powerful, so important. There is so much to be learned from it.Collection: Powerful
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.Collection: People
Kids can spot a phony a mile away.Collection: Kids
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.Collection: Blow
Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction.Collection: Inspirational
Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it.Collection: Grief
The older I get, the more convinced I am that the space between people who are trying their best to understand each other is hallowed ground.Collection: Space
All of us have special ones who have loved us into being. Would you just take, along with me, ten seconds to think of the people who have helped you become who you are....Ten seconds of silence.Collection: Thinking
We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears.Collection: Ears
What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.Collection: Mean
It's a miracle when we finally discover whom we're best equipped to serve.Collection: Miracle
I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.Collection: Simple
We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.Collection: Thinking
People have said, 'Don't cry' to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, 'I'm too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don't cry.' I'd rather have them say, 'Go ahead and cry. I'm here to be with you.'Collection: Years
A love of learning has a lot to do with learning that we are loved.Collection: Love Of Learning
It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life.Collection: Love Is
In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say "I love you," "I'm proud of you," "I forgive you," "I'm grateful for you." That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff.Collection: Love You
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.Collection: Self
I like you just the way you are.Collection: I Like You
Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.Collection: Feel Good
When we choose to be parents, we accept another human being as part of ourselves, and a large part of our emotional selves will stay with that person as long as we live. From that time on, there will be another person on this earth whose orbit around us will affect us as surely as the moon affects the tides, and affect us in some ways more deeply than anyone else can. Our children are extensions of ourselves.Collection: Children
Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying.Collection: Honesty
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.Collection: God
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.Collection: Average
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.Collection: Fear
In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.Collection: Appreciate
It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!Collection: Believe
I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable and, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they are loved and capable of loving.Collection: Love
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.Collection: Lonely
We live in a world in which we need to share responsibility. It’s easy to say “It’s not my child, not my community, not my world, not my problem.” Then there are those who see the need and respond. I consider those people my heroes.Collection: Hero
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.Collection: Struggle
The real drama of life is never centerstage. It’s always in the wings.Collection: Real
I feel that the real drama of life is never center stage, it’s always in the wings. It’s never with the spotlight on, it’s usually something that you don’t expect at all.Collection: Real