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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
Robert Fulghum
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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Robert Lee Fulghum
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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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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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
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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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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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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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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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To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.
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I often say that I don't worry about the meaning of life-I can't handle that big stuff. What concerns me is the meaning in life-day by day, hour by hour, while I'm doing whatever it is I do. What counts is not what I do, but how I think about myself while I'm doing it.
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Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
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Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.
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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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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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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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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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Clean up your own mess.
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