Robert Fulghum Quotes

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• Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
• If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion…
• I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear…
• To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To understand is to know. To…
• I believe it is in my nature to dance by virtue of the beat of my heart, the pulse of my blood and the music…
• Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
• It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
• Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in…
• I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was…
• 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 my life. Sacred…
• If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm…
• The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is…
• I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd…
• Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is…
• Only an open mind still has room for new knowledge. What is outgrown and used up must be discarded to make room for what is…
• Sirius, the brightest star in the heavens.... My grandfather would say we're part of something incredibly wonderful - more marvelous than we imagine. My grandfather…
• The name is not important anymore - it's the tone that counts. I feel like an old dog I know. He will come to any…
• Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise. If…
• If someone were to ask me whether I believed in God, or saw God, or had a particular relationship with God, I would reply that…
• When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had…

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