Robert Fulghum Quotes - Page 7

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• It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

  Robert Fulghum

  Honor, Impossible, Someday

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.188, Ballantine Books

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• And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.

  Robert Fulghum

  Confused, People, Imagination

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.167, Ballantine Books

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• Now everybody has some secret goals in life.

  Robert Fulghum

  Goal, Secret, Life Goal

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• The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

  Robert Fulghum

  Blessed, Debt, Needs

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.137, Ballantine Books

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• But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.

  Robert Fulghum

  May, Exam, Left

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.121, Ballantine Books

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• There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don’t help people who don’t have better values than you do.

  Robert Fulghum

  Flower, Book, Beer

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.95, Ballantine Books

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• Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

  Robert Fulghum

  Roller Coaster, Coasters, Knows

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.84, Ivy Books

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• Love the battle between chaos and imagination.
  Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances.
  Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives.
  Remember: Acting is the same as real life, lived intentionally.
  Never forget: The Fruit is out on the end of the limb. Go there.

  Robert Fulghum

  Life, Real, Numbers

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• Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

  Robert Fulghum

  Roots, Growth, Styrofoam

  Gail Feinstein Forman, Robert Fulghum (1994). “It All Started in Kindergarten: Unforgettable Stories for Listening and Conversation”, Prentice Hall

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• All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

  Robert Fulghum

  Names, People, Costumes

  Robert Fulghum (1993). “Maybe (maybe not): second thoughts from a secret life”

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• The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history.

  Robert Fulghum

  Dream, Powerful, Facts

  Robert Fulghum (2011). “Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life”, p.228, Ballantine Books

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• The name is not important anymore - it's the tone that counts. I feel like an old dog I know. He will come to any name you call him, just so long as your demeanor carries with it the promise of affection and food

  Robert Fulghum

  Dog, Names, Long

  Robert Fulghum (1993). “Maybe (maybe not): second thoughts from a secret life”

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• Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

  Robert Fulghum

  Confused, Use, Manuals

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.14, Ivy Books

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• To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.

  Robert Fulghum

  Empowering, Fairy Tale, Reaching

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door”, p.43, Ivy Books

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• Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.

  Robert Fulghum

  Thinking, Order, Knowing

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• If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.

  Robert Fulghum

  Fun, Justice, Mercy

  Robert Fulghum (2010). “It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It”, p.88, Ivy Books

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