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I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
Robert Fulghum
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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Waco
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Robert Lee Fulghum
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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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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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I do not want to know what you will hope for. I want to know what you will work for. I do not want your sympathy for the needs of humanity. I want your muscle. As the wagon driver said when they came to a long, hard hill: ‘Them that’s going on with us, get out and push. Them that ain’t, get out of the way’.
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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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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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Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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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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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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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 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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One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.
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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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I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling
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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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