Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, 2003
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Fred Rogers was an American television personality, producer, and minister, best known for creating and hosting the popular children's television series "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood." He dedicated his career to promoting children's emotional and social development through his gentle and compassionate approach to addressing various themes and issues. Fred Rogers remains an iconic figure in children's educational television, widely admired for his warmth, kindness, and messages of acceptance and understanding.
1928–2003·lived 74 years
Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.Mister Rogers' Neighborhood, 2003
Part of the problem with the word 'disabilities' is that it immediately suggests an inability to see or hear or walk or do other things that many of us take for granted. But what of people who can't feel? Or talk about their feelings? Or manage their feelings in constructive ways? What of people who aren't able to form close and strong relationships? And people who cannot find fulfillment in their lives, or those who have lost hope, who live in disappointment and bitterness and find in life no joy, no love? These, it seems to me, are the real disabilities.
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.The World According to Mister Rogers, p. 140, 2003
It is very important to know who you are. To make decisions. To show who you are.Interview with Fred Rogers, Fresh Air, November 13, 2002
That’s all 4 quotes by Fred Rogers.