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 very being is good stuff.
Little by little we
human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues
that we aren't perfect.
When you combine your
own intuition with a sensitivity to other people's feelings and moods, you may
be close to the origins of valuable human attributes such as generosity,
altruism, compassion, sympathy, and empathy.
I'm proud of you for standing for something you believed in-something that
wasn't particularly popular but something which assured the rights of someone
less fortunate than you.
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 that
child's uniqueness.
People aren't failures when they're doing the best they can. Our performance
doesn't have to be measured against anyone else's—just against our own
abilities to cope.
-- Fred Rogers
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