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You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.
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life
people
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Robert Fulghum |
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Machines and relatives get most of the yelling. But never trees. As for people, well, the Solomon islanders may have a point. Yelling at living thing does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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Robert Fulghum |
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But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe that serving the best ends of humanity means getting out in the middle of it just as it is, not staying home writing checks and thinking hopeful thoughts. The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with..
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Robert Fulghum |
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Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem.
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freedom
liberation
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Robert Fulghum |
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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
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Robert Fulghum |
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If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.
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Robert Fulghum |
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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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Robert Fulghum |
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As one old gentleman put it, " Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts."
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fiddle
music
what-matters
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Robert Fulghum |
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If you do not join the dancing you will feel foolish. So why not dance? And i will tell you a secret: If you do not join the dance, we will know you are a fool. But if you dance, we will think well of you for trying. if you dance badly to begin and we laugh, what is the sin in that? We will begin there.
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Robert Fulghum |
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The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.
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debt
noblesse-oblige
repay
stranger
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Robert Fulghum |
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Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
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Robert Fulghum |
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There is nothing in your budget for joy. No books, no flowers, no music, not even a cold beer. And there is nothing in your budget to give away to someone else. We don't help people who don't have better values than you do.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Does the giraffe know what he's for? Or care? Or even think about his place in things? 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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giraffe
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Robert Fulghum |
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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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Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything has been spoken. You shall reply: I have not had my say. They will tell you: Everything has been done. You shall reply: My way is not complete. You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard. Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper. And you shall go through and on . . . --Alexa..
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love
relationships
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Robert Fulghum |
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And I'm not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Think of what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world had cookies and milk about 3 o'clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankets for a nap.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Storyteller's Creed: 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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Robert Fulghum |
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Don't Believe Everything You Think!
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inspirational
slice-of-life
spiritual-growth
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Robert Fulghum |
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The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The band faded. The crowd cheered. The Indian held up his hands for silence as if to make a speech. Looking at the band and then the crowd, the Indian said, "Well, what're you waiting for? Let's DANCE." --
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dancing
indian
waiting
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Robert Fulghum |
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Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in.
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trust
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Robert Fulghum |
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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 we do.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Don't sell yourself short. You may never have proof of your importance, but you are more important than you think.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.
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religious
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Robert Fulghum |
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Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?
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Robert Fulghum |
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There is a tree. At the downhill edge of a long, narrow field in the western foothills of the La Sal Mountains -- southeastern Utah. A particular tree. A juniper. Large for its species -- maybe twenty feet tall and two feet in diameter. For perhaps three hundred years this tree has stood its ground. Flourishing in good seasons, and holding on in bad times. "Beautiful" is not a word that comes to mind when one first sees it. No naturalist wo..
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strength
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Robert Fulghum |
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to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
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Robert Fulghum |
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About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
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Robert Fulghum |
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It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory.
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memories
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Robert Fulghum |
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1. Children are not pets. 2. The life they actually live and the life you perceive them to be living is not the same life. 3. Don't take what your children do too personally. 4. Don't keep score cards on them - a short memory is useful. 5. Dirt and mess are a breeding ground for well-being. 6. Stay out of their rooms after puberty. 7. Stay out of their friendships and love-life unless invited in. 8. Don't worry that they never listen to you..
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Robert Fulghum |
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Th communique repeated the information. "He went to the body of his wife and wouldn't leave it, although she was dead." How strange. why didn't he run and save his own hide? What made him go back? is it possible that he loved her? Is it possible that he wanted to hold her in his arms one last time? Is it possible that he needed to cry and grieve? Is it possible that he felt the stupidity of war? Is it possible that he felt the injustice of ..
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Robert Fulghum |
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Alice's robes were seasonal. She hadn't exactly planned it that way, but that's how it evolved. In winter there was a long, warm, deep purple terry-cloth robe. In spring she changed to a new blue-and-white cotton kimono. In summer there was a white chenille bathrobe with a pattern on it, and in the fall she wore a cotton robe her husband had bought her as a surprise gift. They were useful, practical garments, but when she thought about it, ..
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Robert Fulghum |
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It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Life will examine us continually to see if we have understood and have practiced what we were taught that first year of school.
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Robert Fulghum |
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I may be wrong
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Robert Fulghum |
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Until you have experienced raccoons mating underneath your bedroom at three in the morning, you have missed one of life's sensational moments.
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life-and-living
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Robert Fulghum |
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Whenever life becomes Tinkertoys, the queen may be sacrificed.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Knowledge is meaningful only if it is reflected in action. The human race has found out the hard way that we are what we do, not just what we think.
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Robert Fulghum |
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I use Cheer. I like the idea of a happy wash.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away!
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Robert Fulghum |
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And snow--snow is not my enemy, I tell him. Snow is God's way of telling people to slow down and rest and stay in bed for a day. And besides, snow always solves itself. Mixes with the leaves to form more earth, I tell him. Think compost, says I.
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Robert Fulghum |
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Imagination is more important than information." Einstein said that, and he should know."
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