There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is… — Robert Fulghum Beer Copy Share Image
“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will… — Robert Fulghum Encouragement 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
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
“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
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
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 Chickens Copy Share Image
“There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal Mountains… — Robert Fulghum Bad time Copy Share Image
I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts.… — Robert Fulghum Death 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… — Robert Fulghum All things Copy Share Image
One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach… — Robert Fulghum Bags Copy Share Image
My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one… — Robert Fulghum Areas Copy Share Image
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck,… — Robert Fulghum Coping Copy Share Image
The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said… — Robert Fulghum Addresses 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
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated… — Robert Fulghum Feelings Copy Share Image
Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always… — Robert Fulghum Balance Copy Share Image
“If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat or your house is on fire, you've got a problem. Everything… — Robert Fulghum Inconvenience 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
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
Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to… — Robert Fulghum Adventure 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 Books Copy Share Image
My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the… — Robert Fulghum Dance Copy Share Image
The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing… — Robert Fulghum Crossing over Copy Share Image
As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose.… — Robert Fulghum Bones 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
Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of… — Robert Fulghum Balance Copy Share Image
Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how… — Robert Fulghum Cups Copy Share Image
All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not… — Robert Fulghum Costumes 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 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
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
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 Adversity 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 Drivers Copy Share Image
Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push.… — Robert Fulghum Bed Copy Share Image
“These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten): 1. Share everything. 2. Play fair. 3. Don't hit people. 4. Put things back… — Robert Fulghum Balanced life Copy Share Image
“Without realizing it, we fill important places in each other’s lives. It’s that way with the guy at the corner grocery, the… — Robert Fulghum Good people 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
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
