Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away.” — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours,… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Water is everywhere and in all living things; we cannot be seperated from water. No water, no life. Period. Water comes in… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Pardon me, but my father says that it is a lie that Americans have everything. You have no sheep, no goats, no… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life-I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck,… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have -… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“1. Children are not pets. 2. The life they actually live and the life you perceive them to be living is not… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Nobody goes "AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" when they sing it. Maybe because it puts the life adventure in such clear and simple terms. The small… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts” — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The name is not important anymore - it's the tone that counts. I feel like an old dog I know. He will come to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
“Nobody goes "AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" when they sing it. Maybe because it puts the life adventure in such clear and simple terms. The small creature is… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Sometimes during the day, I consciously focus on some ordinary object and allow myself a momentary "paying-attention." This paying-attention gives meaning to my life.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
