For a couple with young children, divorce seldom comes as a "solution" to stress, only as a way to end one form of pain and accept another.
FRED ROGERS, Mister Rogers Talks With Parents
It's you I like. It's not the things you wear. It's not the way you do your hair ... but it's you I like. The way you are right now. The way down deep inside you. Not the things that hide you. Not your fancy toys. They're just beside you. But it's you I like. Every part of you. Your skin, your eyes, your feelings, whether old or new. I hope that you'll remember even when you're feeling blue. That it's you I like. It's you, yourself. It's you.
FRED ROGERS, "Mister Rogers' Money Tips," The Motley Fool, Jan. 20, 2006
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
I believe that appreciation is a holy thing, that when we look for what's best in the person we happen to be with at the moment, we're doing what God does; so in appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred.
FRED ROGERS, Commencement Address at Middlebury College, May 2001
This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end each program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service.
FRED ROGERS, Testimony before U.S. Senate committee, May 1, 1969
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.
FRED ROGERS, You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
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.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
Part of the problem with the word disabilities is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.
FRED ROGERS, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Mar. 2, 2003
What makes the difference between wishing and realizing our wishes? Lots of things, and it may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen.
FRED ROGERS, You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that's 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're not alone.
FRED ROGERS, You Are Special: Neighborly Wit and Wisdom from Mister Rogers
It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
When I was very young, most of my childhood heroes wore capes, flew through the air, or picked up buildings with one arm. They were spectacular and got a lot of attention. But as I grew, my heroes changed, so that now I can honestly say that anyone who does anything to help a child is a hero to me.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
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.
FRED ROGERS, speech at his induction into the Television Hall of Fame, Feb. 1999
I hope that you're learning how important you are, how important each person you see can be. Discovering each one's specialty is the most important learning.
FRED ROGERS, You Are Special: Neighborly Wit and Wisdom from Mister Rogers
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.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' To this day, especially in times of 'disaster,' I remember my mother's words, and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers--so many caring people in this world.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength and other words--like aggression and even violence. Real strength is neither male nor female; but is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that any human being can possess.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
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.
FRED ROGERS, Commencement Address at Dartmouth College, Jun. 9, 2002
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.
FRED ROGERS, You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
You know, 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're loved and capable of loving.
FRED ROGERS, Fred Rogers: America's Favorite Neighbor, 2003
One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment.
FRED ROGERS, You Are Special: Neighborly Wit and Wisdom from Mister Rogers
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, You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're "equally infinite." Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too.
FRED ROGERS, The World According to Mister Rogers
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.
FRED ROGERS, You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor
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