10 Inspirational Mr. Rogers Quotes Baby Boomers Will Love
After seeing “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” with the always lovable Tom Hanks, I left feeling inspired. We should all be a little more like Mr. Rogers.
The show, “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” first hit televisions on February 19, 1968. I was seven years old at the time, and I hate to admit I didn’t fully appreciate the PBS show.
However, as an adult, I can see how Mr. Rogers’ compassion and empathy taught us baby boomers as children that we are special simply by being ourselves.
And Mr. Rogers helped calm us down during a tumultuous time. As boomers may remember, watching the news was scary in 1968 with the Vietnam War raging and the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy. As Fred Rogers said: “When I was a kid and I saw scary things on the news, my mother told me: ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people to help you.'”
Mr. Rogers’ sense of innocence, calm, curiosity, and playfulness helped us baby boomers see the sometimes terrifying world as a place to experience love and kindness, a place to create and invent, a place to live once more. positive and meaningful life.
It seems like the show resonated with a lot of people from the time it aired on PBS until 2001. What’s wonderful is that it turns out that Fred Rogers was just as calm, kind, wise, and empathetic in real life as he was on his iconic children’s show. to show.
In honor of the movie, which I loved, here are 10 quotes that are sure to brighten your day, encourage you to be more kind and considerate, and bring you closer to your fellow man.
“If only you could feel how important you are to the lives of the people you meet, how important you can be to the people you may not even dream of. There is something of you that you leave in every encounter with another person.”
“Anything that’s human is talkable, and anything that’s talkable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. People we trust with that important conversation can help us.” to know that we are not alone.”
“Often when you think you’re at the end of something, you’re at the beginning of something else.”
“Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered, as a matter of course, just a kind word to another person.”
“There is no normal life that is free from pain. It is the very struggle with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth.”
“There are three paths to ultimate success: the first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be kind.”
“No one else can live the life you live. And while no human being is perfect, we always have the opportunity to bring what is unique about us to live in a redemptive way.”
“Forgiveness is a strange thing. Sometimes it can be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be harder to forgive the people we love. Like all important coping skills in life, the ability to forgive and the ability to of letting go. Feelings most likely take root very early in our lives.”
“It’s not so much what we have in this life that matters. It’s what we do with what we have.”
“Everyone longs to be loved. And the best thing we can do is let people know that they are loved and capable of love.”
Fred Rogers died in 2003, but his words live on to inspire us all. As Mr. Rogers sings in his show’s theme song, “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”: “So let’s make the most of this beautiful day.”
