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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.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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Life
Begun
Changes
Already
Learned
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Clean up your own mess.
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
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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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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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One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.
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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.
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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’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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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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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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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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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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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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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 believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.
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