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Scrapbook: "The Wisdom of Mr. Rogers"

by Aileen

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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.

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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.

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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 connect us as neighbors-in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.

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It's true that we take a great deal of our own upbringing on into our adult lives and our lives as parents; but it's true, too, that we can change some of the things that we would like to change. It can be hard, but it can be done.

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Thanks to that preacher and listener-in-need, I now know that the space between a person doing his or her best to deliver a message of good news and the needy listener is holy ground.

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I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to somebody else.

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There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be impetus for our growth.

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Imaging something may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions.

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When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong along with the fearful, the true mixed in with the facade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way.

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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, too.

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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.

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You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today.

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The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self

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Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives.

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Love and trust, in the space between what's said and what's heard in our life, can make all the difference in this world.

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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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Understanding love is one of the hardest thing in the world

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Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren't perfect.

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I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you had ever done.

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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.

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Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

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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?

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Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it.

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Some days, doing "the best we can" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect- on any front -and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else.

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Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime's work, but it's worth the effort

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