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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.
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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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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We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness — and call it love — true love.
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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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If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
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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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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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Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.
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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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Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.
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I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
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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.
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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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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.
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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
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Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.
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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
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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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