The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Life is deep and simple, and what our society gives us is shallow and complicated. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

My hunch is that if we allow ourselves to give who we really are to the children in our care, we will in some way inspire cartwheels in their hearts. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

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? — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other’s achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we are not perfect. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Play gives children a chance to practice what they are learning…They have to play with what they know to be true in order to find out more, and then they can use what they learn in new forms of play. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

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 Mcfeely Rogers

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

The connections we make in the course of a life––maybe that’s what heaven is. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

What matters in this life is more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win too. Even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

There is no normal life that is free of pain. It’s the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Love and trust, in the space between what’s said and what’s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Fame is a four–letter word. And like tape, or zoom, or face, or pain, or love, or life, what ultimately matters is what we do with it. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

It would have been sad for me to spend my life just trying to superimpose stuff on people rather than trying to encourage them to look within themselves for what’s of value. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind … but we won’t break. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

The best teacher in the world is someone who loves what he or she does, and just loves it in front of you. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

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. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Our worlds needs more time to wonder and reflect but there is too much fast paced constant distraction. — Fred Mcfeely 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 Mcfeely Rogers

The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

The world is not always a kind place. That’s something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it’s something they really need our help to understand. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self–discipline. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers

Parents who expect change in themselves as well as in their children, who accept it and find in it the joy as well as the pains ofgrowth, are likely to be the happiest and most confident parents. — Fred Mcfeely Rogers