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Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.

Robert Fulghum

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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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Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
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to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
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It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
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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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My goal now is to dance all the dances as long as I can, and then to sit down contented after the last elegant tango some sweet night and pass on because there wasn't another dance left in me.
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To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.
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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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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.
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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
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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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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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I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
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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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Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
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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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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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Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved.
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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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