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

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Chance
Fear
Comes
Chances
Boredom
Blessing
Taking
Learning

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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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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 a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.
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We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.
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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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It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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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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Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
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Peace is not something you wish for, it's something you make
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An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task
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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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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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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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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
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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 societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity
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The examined life is no picnic.
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Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
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