Robert Fulghum Quotes - Page 2

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• I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music in my mind.

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  Inspirational, Dance, Believe

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• Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

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  Wells

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.37, Ballantine Books

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• For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

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  Wall, Stress, Stupid

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• I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life-I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life-day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.

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  Thinking, Worry, Meaning Of Life

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.68, Ivy Books

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• Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

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  Spiritual, Love Is, Roots

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• If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?

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  Firsts, Living My Life, First Time

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.119, Ivy Books

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• The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.

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  Grass Is Greener On The Other Side, Sides, Fence

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• Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog.

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  Dog, Names, Fleas

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.135, Ivy Books

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• One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

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  Differences, Coping Mechanisms, Problem

  "Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1993.

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• My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.

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  Dance, Sweet, Night

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• Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

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  Quality, Speed, Efficiency

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.78, Ballantine Books

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• Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.

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  Life, Events, Forget

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.18, Ballantine Books

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• Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.

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  Confused, Style, Found

  Robert Fulghum (1999). “Robert Fulghum's All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten”, p.16, Dramatic Publishing

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• Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

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  Heart, Stones, Sticks

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• Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

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  Fun, Fool, Enough

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• Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

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  Im Sorry, Appreciation, Hurt

  All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988)

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• Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.

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  Beach, Learning, Thinking

  Robert Fulghum (1997). “Words I Wish I Wrote: A Collection of Writing that Inspired My Ideas”, Harpercollins

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• It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone’s arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Years

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• Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are - when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.

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  Thinking, Government, Naps

  "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten". Book by Robert Fulghum, 1986.

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• Everything we can imagine becomes real.

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  Real, Imagination, Imagine

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.244, Ivy Books

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• To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To understand is to know. To know is to become. To become is to live fully. To live fully is to matter. And to matter is to become light. And to become light is to be loved. And to be loved is to burn. And to burn is to exist. Off and on.

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  Love, Light, Understanding

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.79, Ivy Books

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• We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.

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  Thinking, Differences, Laughing

  Robert Fulghum (1992). “It was on fire when I lay down on it”, Random House Inc

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• For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.

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  Fall, Old Habits, Mad

  "Handbook for the Soul". Book edited by Benjamin Shield and Richard Carlson, 1995.

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• But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.

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  Wonder, Miraculous, Cease

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.5, Ballantine Books

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• I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

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  Distinction, Made, Clear

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