8 Thanksgiving Day Reminders from Mister Rogers

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Mister Rogers always had wisdom to give. Here are a few of his reminders on this Thanksgiving week.

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I believe it’s a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember (p. 26).

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The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile.

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember (p. 163).

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The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and in tough times , what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we’ve been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges.

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember (p. 61).

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You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are.

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember (p. 20).

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If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person.

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember (p. 148).

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The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember (p. 152).

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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.

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember (p. 134).

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I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger:

I like you just the way you are.

The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember (p. 161).

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