The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten.… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do… — 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
The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses,… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe… — 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
