The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful — Robert Fulghum Awful Copy Share Image
The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood. — Robert Fulghum Heavy Copy Share Image
Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to… — Robert Fulghum Birth Copy Share Image
Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere. — Robert Fulghum Anything can happen Copy Share Image
The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history. — Robert Fulghum Dream Copy Share Image
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. — Robert Fulghum Coping Copy Share Image
About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO… — Robert Fulghum Football Copy Share Image
You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know. — Robert Fulghum Explain Copy Share Image
“Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world had cookies and milk about 3… — Robert Fulghum Better world 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… — Robert Fulghum Closets Copy Share Image
“If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is… — Robert Fulghum Dream Copy Share Image
The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is… — Robert Fulghum Companion 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 Life Copy Share Image
To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching… — Robert Fulghum Empowering Copy Share Image
I and you-We are infinate, rich, large, contradictory, living, breathing miracles-free human beings, children of God and the everlasting universe. That's what… — Robert Fulghum Beings Copy Share Image
For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not… — Robert Fulghum Attention Copy Share Image
Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most… — Robert Fulghum Anything goes 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 Child 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 Big stuff Copy Share Image
Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live… — Robert Fulghum Acting Copy Share Image
I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might… — Robert Fulghum Behinds Copy Share Image
When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking… — Robert Fulghum Animal Copy Share Image
I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles… — Robert Fulghum Beans Copy Share Image
“Arguing whether or not God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name of… — Robert Fulghum Arguing Copy Share Image
Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride? — Robert Fulghum Coaster Copy Share Image
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. — Robert Fulghum Blessing Copy Share Image
Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes — Robert Fulghum Diamond Copy Share Image
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we. — Robert Fulghum Cups Copy Share Image
And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree. — Robert Fulghum Agree 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
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
to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down — Robert Fulghum Love Copy Share Image
“We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)” — Robert Fulghum Great love Copy Share Image
Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values. — Robert Fulghum Adversity 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
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
Life-and-death. Lifedeath. One event. One short event. Don't forget. — Robert Fulghum Death 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
Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living. — Robert Fulghum Confused Copy Share Image
The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community. — Robert Fulghum Community Copy Share Image
