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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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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.
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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 ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.
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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.
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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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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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Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.
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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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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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We could learn a lot from crayons some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.
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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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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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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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Anything can happen. The great banana peel of existence is always on the floor somewhere.
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As one old gentleman put it, Son, I don't care if you're stark nekkid and wear a bone in your nose. If you kin fiddle, you're all right with me. It's the music we make that counts.
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