#fred rogers

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Not only can the world outside be frightening, but the world inside, the world of feelings, can also be scary when you’re not sure you can manage those feelings by yourself.

Fred Rogers

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There is much more to independence than learning to master new skills. One of the most important parts of independence is learning to form new relationships with other people.

Fred Rogers

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Each person brings his or her own inner story to the one they’re hearing and seeing. And that inner story needs to be felt to be important. The story of each one of our lives has its own importance.

Fred Rogers

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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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My own wish for children is that they learn to find joy even amidst the world's and their own imperfections . . . that they grow to have a clear but forgiving interior voice to guide them. . . and that they come to have a reasonable sense of shame without an unreasonable burden of guilt.

Fred Rogers

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I would think there are some of us who feel that if we don’t fit into some kind of a mold that somebody else has set out for us to be that we don’t have value. Well, just the contrary: We have value if we can look within ourselves, look deep within ourselves, and know who we are, and express that in as creative a way as we can.

Fred Rogers

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The world needs a sense of worth. And it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

Fred Rogers