Fred Rogers Quotes

If you have things that make you sad, express them to other people.

I feel like sometimes we just need to speak more about what we're going through.

We all need somebody to talk to. It would be good if we talked... not just pitter-patter, but real talk. We shouldn't be so afraid, because most people really like this contact; that you show you are vulnerable makes them free to be vulnerable.

I'm an emotional person; I do occasionally shed a tear.

You've gotta share what's going on in your mind.

Romantically, in my head, I'm Rambo, but if someone's shouting at me, I get adrenalin shakes and go red. When I'm really low, I have a good cry.

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.

I don't really cry.

It's impossible to live a life totally free of feelings. God created all of us to be emotional creatures, and feelings are a big part of our lives.

Everything affects you, and it doesn't measure how tough you are by being a rock and sitting by yourself. People need to talk. It's not a sign of weakness.

People love telling their stories, even if they're very, very sad ones. People love to communicate and express.

I don't cry about anything.

I used to suppress all my feelings, and it doesn't do anybody any good.

When I've had a meltdown, people will say to me, "Well, you failed to keep your sense of humor."

I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

I'm a girl who has been tamping down her emotions and keeping them tightly guarded her whole life. And that works really well for me. [...] And now I felt like my shell had a dangerous crack in it. Without much more effort on his part, it would split wide open and my enormous river of emotions would gush out - the bad and the good. It was pretty much the scariest thing I'd ever thought of.

The presence of anxiety is unavoidable, but the prison of anxiety is optional. Anxiety is not a sin; it's an emotion. So don't be anxious about feeling anxious. Anxiety can, however, lead to sinful behavior. When we numb our fears with six-packs or food binges, when we spew anger like Krakatau, when we peddle our fears to anyone who will buy them, we're sinning.

Sorrow you can hold, however desolating, if nobody speaks to you. If they speak, you break down.

Grief, no matter where it comes from, can only be resolved by connecting to other people.

There are times when I feel incredibly loved and connected, and times when I feel alone. I think that's natural for all of us.

What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

I think most human beings go through some sort of depression in their life. And if they don't, I think that's weird.

In my mind, marriage is a spiritual partnership and union in which we willingly give and receive love, create and share intimacy, and open ourselves to be available and accessible to another human being in order to heal, learn and grow.

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.