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Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
— Robert Fulghum
I think my writing is part of my ministry.
— Robert Fulghum
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
— Robert Fulghum
Clean up your own mess.
— Robert Fulghum
The examined life is no picnic.
— Robert Fulghum
Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think.
— Robert Fulghum
Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?
— Robert Fulghum
All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess ...
— Robert Fulghum
I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.
— Robert Fulghum
A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.
— Robert Fulghum
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.
— Robert Fulghum
The pig was so earnest. So sincere. So very "there." The pig brought gravity and mythic import to this well-worn fairy tale.
— Robert Fulghum
Why is love easy? I don't know. And the raccoons don't say.
— Robert Fulghum
No. I was an only child.
— Robert Fulghum
Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.
— Robert Fulghum
You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.
— Robert Fulghum
Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
— Robert Fulghum
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.
— Robert Fulghum
Everything we can imagine becomes real.
— Robert Fulghum
It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
— Robert Fulghum
I use Cheer. I like the idea of a happy wash.
— Robert Fulghum
We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.
— Robert Fulghum
Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.
— Robert Fulghum
It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
— Robert Fulghum
Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.
— Robert Fulghum
Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.
— Robert Fulghum
Life is. I am. Anything might happen.
— Robert Fulghum
And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?
— Robert Fulghum
Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
— Robert Fulghum
I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.
— Robert Fulghum
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.
— Robert Fulghum
All I really need to know ... I learned in kindergarten.
— Robert Fulghum
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
The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.
— Robert Fulghum
Dreams are more powerful than facts.
— Robert Fulghum
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
Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts ...
— Robert Fulghum
Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do,and something you give away.
— Robert Fulghum
Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
— Robert Fulghum
To understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
— Robert Fulghum
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.
— Robert Fulghum
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
— Robert Fulghum
Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.
— Robert Fulghum
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more than fame and fortune.
— Robert Fulghum
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?
— Robert Fulghum
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
— Robert Fulghum
Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
— Robert Fulghum
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
— Robert Fulghum
The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful
— Robert Fulghum
The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.
— Robert Fulghum
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
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
— Robert Fulghum
This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.
— Robert Fulghum
Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes
— Robert Fulghum
I believe in dancing.
— Robert Fulghum
The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors.
— Robert Fulghum
It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
— Robert Fulghum
Now Everybody has some secret goals in life ... Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.
— Robert Fulghum
Embassy Row in Washington, D.C., the summer I turned
— Robert Fulghum
My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.
— Robert Fulghum
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
— Robert Fulghum
You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.
— Robert Fulghum
Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.
— Robert Fulghum
If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.
— Robert Fulghum
Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.
— Robert Fulghum
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we.
— Robert Fulghum
Imagination is better than knowledge.
— Robert Fulghum
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.
— Robert Fulghum
Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.
— Robert Fulghum
Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
— Robert Fulghum
About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
— Robert Fulghum
If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.
— Robert Fulghum
To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
— Robert Fulghum
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling
— Robert Fulghum
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
— Robert Fulghum
Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.
— Robert Fulghum
Whenever life becomes Tinkertoys, the queen may be sacrificed.
— Robert Fulghum