Did you know today (March 20) is Mister Rogers' birthday? Whether you grew up watching Mister Rogers' Neighborhood or not, here are 15 of our favorite quotes that are just as relevant today as they were when he said them:
"Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero. "
"Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people."
"Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors."
"Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else."
"All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors--in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver."
"Our society is much more interested in information than wonder, in noise rather than silence...And I feel that we need a lot more wonder and a lot more silence in our lives."
"Real strength has to do with helping others."
"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."
"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."
"How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?"
"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 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."
"There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it."
"Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given."
"There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind."
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