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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

Robert Fulghum

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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
Author
Novelist
Writer
Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
Heart
Lightness
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Human
Humans

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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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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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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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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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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
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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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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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To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.
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About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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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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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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The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.
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Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.
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The point is that getting married for lust or money or social status or even love is usually trouble. The point is that marriage is a maze into which we wander - a maze that is best got through with a great companion.
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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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Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.
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Clean up your own mess.
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Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
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