When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.
Fred RogersIf the grain of wheat could know fear, it would be paralyzed with anxiety at the thought of being dropped in the ground, covered over, put out of sight, doomed to inactivity, yet what a glorious harvest awaits it!
Fred RogersIn the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of โ moments when we human beings can say, โI love youโ ... โI'm proud of youโ ... โI forgive youโ ... โI'm grateful for youโ ... โWhether you win anything or not, you still have great value.โ That's what eternity is made of: invisible, imperishable good stuff.
Fred RogersOur children are extensions of ourselves in ways our parents are not, nor our brothers and sisters, nor our spouses.
Fred Rogers