Robert Fulghum Quotes

You feel like an ant contemplating Chicago.

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

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?

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

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.

Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup. The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that.

Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.

Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.

Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.

Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away.

About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!

And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.

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.

Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 than fame and fortune.

I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.

Any fool can make enough money to survive. It's another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It's a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible.

You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.

Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me.

If you can't find the exact quote you want, make it up.

I don't think there is a hidden purpose to the universe that you have to puzzle out.

To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.

I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way.

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.

Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.

Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.

Children are sent to school to be civilized, to learn to be part of the social enterprise.

I believe in dancing.

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 simplicity.

My secret agenda is to convey my values to my kids.

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.

If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy.

Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.

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.