Love is at the root of everything. All learning, all parenting, all relationships. Love, or the lack of it.
In plain words
Love sits underneath everything, learning, families, friendships, all of it.
Where these words come from
- 50% sureLots of sources credit Fred Rogers with this, and they agree with each other. The book or the speech it first came from hasn't turned up yet.
- Rogers' on-camera remark documented in contemporaneous 2018 press coverage of the 'Won't You Be My Neighbor' footage; no Wikiquote sourced entry
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Fred RogersYou are an important person just the way you are.Fred RogersAlways look for the helpers. There's always someone who is trying to help.Fred RogersOur world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space.Fred RogersIt's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others.Fred RogersPlay is really the work of childhood.Fred RogersMore on kindness
Treat all men alike. Give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow.
Chief JosephNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.
Charles DickensThere is only one enduring happiness in life — to live for others.
Leo TolstoyAmong individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.
Benito JuárezAs to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
HippocratesThe quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.
William Shakespeare
Chief JosephNo one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.Charles DickensThere is only one enduring happiness in life — to live for others.Leo TolstoyAmong individuals, as among nations, respect for the rights of others is peace.Benito JuárezAs to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.HippocratesThe quality of mercy is not strain'd, it droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven.William Shakespeare