Tag: Love

6 Best Fred Rogers Quotes That Will Motivate You To Be Who You Are

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Quotes, Personal Development, Personal Growth
If You Judge People You Have No Time To Love Them text spelled out with pink letter tiles of famous word game against black background
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You are good enough for yourself. You are who you are for a reason. Start treating yourself like someone powerful. Start loving yourself. No one is perfect. When you make mistakes, be nice to yourself. Love yourself.

Here are some daily thoughts for you:

“There is no person in the whole world like you; and I like you just the way you are.”- Fred Rogers

“Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more clues that we aren’t perfect.”- Fred Rogers

“It’s our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That’s what’s essential. That’s what will make the biggest difference in our world.”- Fred Rogers

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

“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.”- Fred Rogers

“It’s not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It is knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff.”- Fred Rogers

If Want To Get More Done, Do Nothing But What Is Necessary

by Bright Osadiaye, posted in Health & Well-Being, Personal Development, Personal Growth
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Photo by Tim Eiden

Make your actions good and few.

You can get more done if you can make your actions good and few. Do not do many things at the same time. Simplify your life. Simplify your work. Do not start what you cannot finish. And do not start what you know you can’t do. When it comes to your work, always be honest with yourself.

As the great Marcus Aurelius once said, “Do nothing but what is necessary. … by this rule a man has the double pleasure of making his actions good and few into the bargain. For the greater part of what we say and do, being unnecessary, if this were but take away, we should have both more leisure and less disturbance. And therefore before a man sets forward, he should ask himself this question, “Am I not upon the verge of something unnecessary.”

If what you are doing is not contributing to your life, to your work, if it is not making you better than you were yesterday, then stop doing it. Because you are not going to get different results. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.” So if you want to be great, then you must simplify your things.