Robert Fulghum quotes - page 3

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago. (Robert Fulghum)
I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.
Robert Fulghum
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.
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
Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget.
Robert Fulghum
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.
Robert Fulghum
Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
Robert Fulghum
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Robert Fulghum
I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
Robert Fulghum
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.
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)
The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart. Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to use all of my parts. Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are not separate entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same human being.
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
I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.
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
They've added an important dimension to the lives of the young people of their town - that lightness of being that belongs to dancers.
Robert Fulghum
My convictions have validity for me because I have experimented with the compounds of ideas of others in the laboratory of my mind. And I've tested the results in the living out of my life.
Robert Fulghum
Love the battle between chaos and imagination.
Robert Fulghum
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
Robert Fulghum
It's almost impossible to go through life all alone.
Robert Fulghum
Too much high-content information, and I get the existential willies. I keep sputtering out at intersections where life choices must be made and I either know too much or not enough. The examined life is no picnic. (Robert Fulghum)
What we learn in kindergarten comes up again and again in our lives as long as we live. In far more complex, polysyllabic forms, to be sure. In lectures, encyclopedias, bibles, company rules, courts of law, sermons, and handbooks. 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
I did not set out to be a writer. It's something that came to me after I was 50 years of age.
Robert Fulghum
The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?
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