An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world. — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a… — 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
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
And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that?… — 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
I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way. — 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
Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth,… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it… — 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
I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo… — 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
