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We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness--and call it love--true love.
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Robert Fulghum |
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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imagination
hope
inspirational
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Robert Fulghum |
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We're all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness -- and call it love -- true love.
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misattributed-dr-seuss
weirdness
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Robert Fulghum |
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These are the things I learned (in Kindergarten): 1. Share everything. 2. Play fair. 3. Don't hit people. 4. Put things back where you found them. 5. CLEAN UP YOUR OWN MESS. 6. Don't take things that aren't yours. 7. Say you're SORRY when you HURT somebody. 8. Wash your hands before you eat. 9. Flush. 10. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. 11. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing a..
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Robert Fulghum |
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You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn't do without you. The rub is that you don't always know who.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
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Robert Fulghum |
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It doesn't matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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Robert Fulghum |
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It's harder to talk about, but what I really, really, really want for Christmas is just this: I want to be 5 years old again for an hour. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I want to be picked or rocked to sleep in someone's arms, and carried up to be just one more time. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this "something" cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It's what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn't count it. Nothing counts without it."
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Robert Fulghum |
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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 then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. And it is still true, no matter how old you are-when you go out into the world, it is best to hold hands and stick together.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts
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Robert Fulghum |
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What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get a glazed look on their faces, pour the crayons out, and just look at them for a while....The adults always get the most wonderful kind of sheepish smile on their faces--a mixture of delight and nostalgia and silliness. And they immediately start telling you about all their experiences with Crayolas.
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Robert Fulghum |
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A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Without realizing it, we fill important places in each other's lives. It's that way with the guy at the corner grocery, the mechanic at the local garage, the family doctor, teachers, neighbors, coworkers. Good people who are always "there," who can be relied upon in small, important ways. People who teach us, bless us, encourage us, support us, uplift us in the dailiness of life. We never tell them. I don't know why, but we don't. And, of c..
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Robert Fulghum |
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It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.
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Robert Fulghum |
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If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.
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Robert Fulghum |
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It's the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
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Robert Fulghum |
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We can do no great things; only small things with great love.(mother Teresa)
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Robert Fulghum |
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The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?
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Robert Fulghum |
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Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
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pride
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Robert Fulghum |
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The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature's imperfect but tenacious survivors.
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Robert Fulghum |
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If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?
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Robert Fulghum |
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Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exe..
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Robert Fulghum |
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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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Robert Fulghum |
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I often say that I don't worry about the meaning life--I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning life--day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is that I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Nobody goes "AAAAAAAGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!" when they sing it. Maybe because it puts the life adventure in such clear and simple terms. The small creature is alive and looks for adventure. Here's the drainpipe--a long tunnel going up toward some light. The spider doesn't even think about it--just goes. Disaster befalls it--rain, flood, powerful foces. And the spider is knocked down and out beyond where it started. Does the spider say, "To ..
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Robert Fulghum |
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I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that. I might give at least the memory of it to myself if I try. I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child, of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of or hearts for something wonderful to happen. A child who is impractical, unrealisti..
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christmas
children
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Robert Fulghum |
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Everything I need to know... I learned in kindergarten.
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school
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Robert Fulghum |
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Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.
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Robert Fulghum |
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If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible.
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Robert Fulghum |
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I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.
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Robert Fulghum |
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And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?
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happy
unhealthy
eat
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Robert Fulghum |
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Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. "What do you do?"."
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Robert Fulghum |
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So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn't apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it
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Robert Fulghum |
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Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.
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Robert Fulghum |
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We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.
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Robert Fulghum |
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The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.
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gift
debt
thankful
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Robert Fulghum |
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And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
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Robert Fulghum |
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One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire - then you've got a problem. Everything else is an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.
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coping
struggles
coping-strategies
inconvenience
emergency
problems
difficulties
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