Fred Rogers Quotes

Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.

I'm not running around looking for love and validation.

Does self-acceptance ultimately require another person, or is there a kind of love that does not dabble in the dream of a perfect twinship?

I've got to like myself, I think, through my relationship with Sting, who pours love over me.

Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.

My desire to be valued is manifested in cultivating relationships with my friends and family.

You can search throughout the entire universe for someone who is more deserving of your love and affection than you are yourself, and that person is not to be found anywhere. You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe deserve your love and affection.

There's always a common attraction to universal needs of love and a feeling of worthiness.

If a person feels like 'They're not acknowledging me'... That's a very important feeling in life, even if it's not romantic.

Women with low self-esteem love bad boys. Women who have work to do love bad boys. Women who love themselves love good men.

I am a better person when I let myself have the time for romance and for love.

I'm at a place in my life right now where I'm very happy, very content. I'm finally OK with the idea of who I love, who I want to be with.

I want people to love me, but it's not going to hurt me if they don't.

Here's the thing: you're not really ready for love until you have enough self-respect that if you met your exact self, but in a guy, you would totally, completely, absolutely want to be with him.

There are about 20 people in my life that I want to love me, and none of them are the 'Daily Mail.'

Our ideas about love and attractiveness are so primal, our need for belonging so intense, that most of us are loath to abandon our favorite beliefs on these issues. If you've ever let yourself feel lovable and lovely, only to be deeply hurt, you may see accepting your own body as a setup for severe emotional wounding.

Love is very dangerous if you just have love and don't have the ability to be lovable.

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

Happiness is when you love who you are and you are able to accept yourself and others.

You deserve love and you'll get it.

When we are looking for validation, that will never satisfy us. When we are looking for affection, for love, a little bit of that will be enough to be complete.

We cease loving ourselves if no one loves us.

When you love and accept yourself, when you know who really cares about you, and when you learn from your mistakes, then you stop caring about what people who don't know you think.

Tell me who admires and loves you, and I will tell you who you are.

A woman who is loved always has success.