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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.
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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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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Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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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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Making a living and having a life are not the same thing. Making a living and making a life that's worthwhile are not the same thing. Living the good life and living a good life are not the same thing. A job title doesn't even come close to answering the question. What do you do?.
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Clean up your own mess.
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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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If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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The examined life is no picnic.
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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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I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge.
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Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
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This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.
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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.
Robert Fulghum
Desire is the intangible quality that has more impact on success than talent, education, or IQ. You can't see desire, but you can feel its presence, and see its results in the lives of successful people.
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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum
Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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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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