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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
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Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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Sticks
Bones
Stones
Hearts
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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.
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The examined life is no picnic.
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Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make
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Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
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For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.
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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 what they have, where they are.
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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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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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Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.
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And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.
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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.
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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 yet to be learned. And much of the best thinking is done alone-in deserts, on beaches, in bed, behind closed doors. It is why we say we need to get away-to escape from clutter and busyness-to hear ourselves think.
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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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The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.
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Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.
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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
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Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.
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Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives. Remember: Acting is the same as real life, lived intentionally. Never forget: The Fruit is out on the end of the limb. Go there.
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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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