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Accepting others5 quotes

Doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else. — Fred Rogers · 2003 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. — Fred Rogers · 2003 It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other. — Fred Rogers · 2003 Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving. — Fred Rogers · 2003 If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what "good" parenting means. It's part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance—and often far short. But one of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness. — Fred Rogers · 2003

America5 quotes

I have fallen in love with American names, The sharp, gaunt names that never get fat, The snakeskin-titles of mining-claims, The plumed war-bonnet of Medicine Hat, Tucson and Deadwood and Lost Mule Flat. — Stephen Vincent Benet · 1927 I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse, I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea. You may bury my body in Sussex grass, You may bury my tongue at Champmédy. I shall not be there, I shall rise and pass. Bury my heart at Wounded Knee. — Stephen Vincent Benet · 1927 Without the cold war, what's the point of being an American? — John Updike · 1990 America is a vast conspiracy to make you happy. — John Updike · 1972 Some sense of religious mission is part of being American. — John Updike · 1996

Acceptance3 quotes

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. — Fred Rogers · 2003 Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving. — Fred Rogers · 2003 If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what "good" parenting means. It's part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance—and often far short. But one of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness. — Fred Rogers · 2003

American politics3 quotes

I feel an humble confidence that the kind Providence which inspired our fathers with wisdom to frame the most perfect form of government and union ever devised by man will not suffer it to perish until it shall have been peacefully instrumental by its example in the extension of civil and religious liberty throughout the world. — James Buchanan · 1857 All agree that under the Constitution slavery in the States is beyond the reach of any human power except that of the respective States themselves wherein it exists. — James Buchanan · 1857 The Federal Constitution is a grant from the States to Congress of certain specific powers, and the question whether this grant should be liberally or strictly construed has more or less divided political parties from the beginning. — James Buchanan · 1857

Art3 quotes

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. — Andy Warhol · 1975 I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own. — Andy Warhol · 1975 The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and... He does it without destroying something else. — John Updike · 1977

Business3 quotes

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol · 1975 Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. — Andy Warhol · 1975 Business is built by men who care-care enough to disagree, fight it out to a finish, get facts. When two men always agree, one of them is unnecessary. — William Wrigley Jr. · 1931

Environmental destruction3 quotes

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey · 1984 There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. — Frank Buchman · 1938 Over increasingly large areas of the United States, spring now comes unheralded by the return of the birds, and the early mornings are strangely silent where once they were filled with the beauty of bird song. — Rachel Carson · 1962

Nature of art3 quotes

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art. — Andy Warhol · 1975 Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. — Andy Warhol · 1975 The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and... He does it without destroying something else. — John Updike · 1977

Ocean and sea3 quotes

For all at last returns to the sea...the beginning and the end. — Rachel Carson · 1951 The edge of the sea is a strange and beautiful place. All through the long history of Earth it has been an area of unrest where waves have broken heavily against the land, where the tides have pressed forward over the continents, receded, and then returned. For no two successive days is the shore line precisely the same. — Rachel Carson · 1955 The sea lies all about us. The commerce of all lands must cross it. The very winds that move over the lands have been cradled on its broad expanse and seek ever to return to it. The continents themselves dissolve and pass to the sea, in grain after grain of eroded land. So the rains that rose from it return again in rivers. In its mysterious past it encompasses all the dim origins of life and receives in the end, after, it may be, many transmutations, the dead husks of that same life. For all at least return to the sea—to Oceanus, the ocean river, like the everflowing stream of time, the beginning and the end. — Rachel Carson · 1951

Self-acceptance3 quotes

Doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else. — Fred Rogers · 2003 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. — Fred Rogers · 2003 If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what "good" parenting means. It's part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance—and often far short. But one of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness. — Fred Rogers · 2003

Success3 quotes

You don't ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you. — Fred Rogers · 2002 It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff. — Fred Rogers · 2002 There is only one success, he said to himself-to be able to spend your life in your own way. — Christopher Morley · 1922

Support3 quotes

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 Rogers · 2003 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... Think of the ripple effect that can be created when we nourish someone. One kind empathetic word has a wonderful way of turning into many. — Fred Rogers · 2003 It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life. — Fred Rogers · 2003

Achievement2 quotes

You don't ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you. — Fred Rogers · 2002 It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff. — Fred Rogers · 2002

Artists2 quotes

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have but that he—for some reason—thinks it would be a good idea to give them. — Andy Warhol · 1975 The artist brings something into the world that didn't exist before, and... He does it without destroying something else. — John Updike · 1977

Capitalism2 quotes

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey · 1984 There is enough in the world for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed. — Frank Buchman · 1938

Cities2 quotes

There must be eyes upon the street, eyes belonging to those we might call the natural proprietors of the street. The buildings on a street equipped to handle strangers and to insure the safety of both residents and strangers, must be oriented to the street. They cannot turn their backs or blank sides on it and leave it blind. — Jane Jacobs · 1961 All great art is born of the metropolis. — Ezra Pound · 1913

Generosity2 quotes

The greatest gift you will ever give is your honest self. — Fred Rogers · 2003 Usually the people who are the most generous are the people who have the least to give. I learned this first hand as a newspaper carrier when I was 12 years old. The biggest tips came from the poorest people. — Keith Haring · 1986

Interconnectedness of all people2 quotes

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. We are intimately related. — Fred Rogers · 2002 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... Think of the ripple effect that can be created when we nourish someone. One kind empathetic word has a wonderful way of turning into many. — Fred Rogers · 2003

Life2 quotes

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. — Annie Dillard · 1990 Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody. — Stephen Chbosky · 1999

Love2 quotes

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. — Fred Rogers · 2003 Deep within us—no matter who we are—there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving. — Fred Rogers · 2003

Meaning of life2 quotes

It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff. — Fred Rogers · 2002 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 Rogers · 2003

Parenting2 quotes

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 Rogers · 2003 If the day ever came when we were able to accept ourselves and our children exactly as we and they are, then, I believe, we would have come very close to an ultimate understanding of what "good" parenting means. It's part of being human to fall short of that total acceptance—and often far short. But one of the most important gifts a parent can give a child is the gift of accepting that child's uniqueness. — Fred Rogers · 2003

Parents and children2 quotes

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 Rogers · 2003 It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life. — Fred Rogers · 2003

Patriarchy2 quotes

To men a man is but a mind. Who cares What face he carries or what form he wears? But woman's body is the woman. — Ambrose Bierce · 1906 For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of a Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno and the hide of a rhinoceros. — Ethel Barrymore · 1953

Recognition2 quotes

You don't ever have to do anything sensational for people to love you. — Fred Rogers · 2002 It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our lives, from which we make our choices, is very good stuff. — Fred Rogers · 2002

Relationships2 quotes

You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today. — Fred Rogers · 2003 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 Rogers · 2003

Rich vs. poor2 quotes

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent. — Henry George · 1879 Usually the people who are the most generous are the people who have the least to give. I learned this first hand as a newspaper carrier when I was 12 years old. The biggest tips came from the poorest people. — Keith Haring · 1986

Special moments2 quotes

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 Rogers · 2003 The really important "great" things are never center stage of life's dramas; they're always "in the wings." That's why it's so essential for us to be mindful of the humble and the deep rather than the flashy and superficial. — Fred Rogers · 2003

Support from others2 quotes

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 Rogers · 2003 It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life. — Fred Rogers · 2003

War2 quotes

To say that war is madness is like saying that sex is madness: true enough, from the standpoint of a stateless eunuch, but merely a provocative epigram for those who must make their arrangements in the world as given. — John Updike · 1989 Warfare... Is just an invention, older and more widespread than the jury system, but none the less an invention. — Margaret Mead · 1940

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