Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know. — Robert Fulghum Deadly Copy Share Image
I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. — Robert Fulghum About Copy Share Image
I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living. — Robert Fulghum Always Copy Share Image
This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter. — Robert Fulghum Exercise Copy Share Image
Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living. — Robert Fulghum Confused 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 Hands Copy Share Image
Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget. — Robert Fulghum Death 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 First time Copy Share Image
All I ever needed to know I learned in kindergarten. Share everything ... Don't hit people ... Clean up your own mess ... — Robert Fulghum Clean 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 Animal Copy Share Image
I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and… — Robert Fulghum Alpha and omega Copy Share Image
“Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play… — Robert Fulghum Balanced life Copy Share Image
A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes… — Robert Fulghum Animal Copy Share Image
The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of… — Robert Fulghum Casts Copy Share Image
We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why… — Robert Fulghum Make 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… — Robert Fulghum Affection Copy Share Image
It's not that I'm not grateful for all this attention. It's just that fame and fortune ought to add up to more… — Robert Fulghum Add Copy Share Image
Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or… — Robert Fulghum Census 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 Dandelions Copy Share Image
The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The… — Robert Fulghum Band 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 Dance 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 Able Copy Share Image
What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The… — Robert Fulghum Adults 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 Black Copy Share Image
Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are… — Robert Fulghum Good life Copy Share Image
Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood. — Robert Fulghum Child Copy Share Image
“Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think.” — Robert Fulghum Importance Copy Share Image
You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it. — Robert Fulghum Free Copy Share Image
“Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts” — Robert Fulghum Sticks and stones Copy Share Image
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community. — Robert Fulghum Community Copy Share Image
to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down — Robert Fulghum Love 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 Book Copy Share Image
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered. — Robert Fulghum Fence Copy Share Image
And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree. — Robert Fulghum Agree Copy Share Image
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them. — Robert Fulghum Found Copy Share Image
