I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out. — 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
You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret:… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the… — 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
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… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally… — 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
These are the things I learned: share everything, play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Think what a better world it would be if we all-the whole world-had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
It’s harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5… — 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
Sometimes, when asked the what-do-you-do question, it occurs to me to say that I work for the government. I have a government… — 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 someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I… — 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
