7 Inspiring Quotes from Mister Rogers

"Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."

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

"Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go."

"Peace means far more than the opposite of war."

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

"Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just one kind word to another person."

"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."

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