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 RogersRead
Try your best to make goodness attractive. That's one of the toughest assignments you'll ever be given.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Encouraging goodness can be a challenging but important task.
Fred Rogers emphasizes the difficulty and significance of making goodness appealing to others. This quote highlights the idea that promoting positive values and kindness is not just a personal responsibility but a daunting challenge that can shape society in fundamental ways.
Themes
GoodnessAttractivenessChallengeKindnessMotivation
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about community service, the speaker quotes Fred Rogers to inspire volunteers.
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Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener.
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I'm fairly convinced that the Kingdom of God is for the broken-hearted. You write of 'powerlessness.' Join the club, we are not in control. God is.
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The presence of a grandparent confirms that parents were, indeed, little once, too, and that people who are little can grow to be big, can become parents, and one day even have grandchildren of their own. So often we think of grandparents as belonging to the past; but in this important way, grandparents, for young children, belong to the future.
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One of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness.
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