Fred Rogers

---

Quotes...

• “If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."
• "Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people."
• "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!"
• “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.”
• “Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others.”
• “As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has- or ever will have- something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.”
• “You are a very special person. There is only one like you in the whole world. There's never been anyone exactly like you before, and there will never be again. Only you. And people can like you exactly as you are.”
• "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."
• "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."
• “Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else.”
• “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.”
• “We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence.”
• “The only thing evil can’t stand is forgiveness.”
• “Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated.”

Songs...
I Love to Shine
I love to shine, I love to shine
I love to let what's in me shine outside
I love to shine, I love to shine
I love to let what's in me shine outside

The world needs all the light that we can muster
Each moon and star and comet in the sky
We add to all the world our special luster
So shine on friends and never question why
We love to shine, we love to shine
We love to let what's in us shine outside
We love to let what's in us shine outside

Come On and Wake Up
Come on and wake up
Come on and wake up now
It's time to shake a leg and get up
It's time for you to raise your head up

Come on and wake up
Come on and wake up now
You know it's time
Come on and
Come on and
Come on and
Come on and
Come on and wake up now

“As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has- or ever will have- something inside that is unique to all time. It's our job to encourage each other to discover that uniqueness and to provide ways of developing its expression.”

Quote by Fred Rogers