Robert Fulghum Short Quotes

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Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.

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

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You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

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

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I don't think the thing is to be well known, but being worth knowing.

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

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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

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

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It doesn't matter what you say you believe — it only matters what you do.

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

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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.

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Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

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Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.

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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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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

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The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful

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Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

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Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.

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Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

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

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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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Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.

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Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, something you give away.

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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.

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Be aware of wonder. And then remember the Dick and Jane books and the first word you learned — the biggest word of all — LOOK.

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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?

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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