Robert Fulghum quotes - page 2

It's the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible. (Robert Fulghum)
We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.
Robert Fulghum
But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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
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
Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
Robert Fulghum
You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.
Robert Fulghum
To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
Robert Fulghum
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
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 recall an old Sufi story of a good man who was granted one wish by God. The man said he would like to go about doing good without knowing about it. God granted his wish. And then God decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish to all human beings. And so it has been to this day. (Robert Fulghum)
Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think. This is true for kids and adults - for schoolrooms and nations.
Robert Fulghum
There are places we all come from - deep-rooty-common places - that make us who they are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again - and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.
Robert Fulghum
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
Robert Fulghum
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.
Robert Fulghum
Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.
Robert Fulghum
The examined life is no picnic.
Robert Fulghum
Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood.
Robert Fulghum
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.
Robert Fulghum
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum
Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise. (Robert Fulghum)
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
Robert Fulghum
I believe in dancing.
Robert Fulghum
I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
Robert Fulghum
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
Robert Fulghum