About Fred Rogers

American television host and creator of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood. (1928-2003)

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• Always look for the helpers. There's always someone who is trying to help.Mister Rogers Talks with Parents (1983), recalling his mother's advice
• 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: America's Favorite Neighbor (2003)
• 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.Commencement address, Middlebury College (May 2001)
• If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of.Mister Rogers' Neighborhood: Thoughts for All Ages

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• If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.Henry David Thoreau
• Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.Henry David Thoreau
• It is not enough to be industrious; so are the ants. What are you industrious about?Henry David Thoreau
• I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.Henry David Thoreau
• Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.Ralph Waldo Emerson
• What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal.Friedrich Nietzsche

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