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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
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Waco
Texas
Robert Lee Fulghum
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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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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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Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.
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It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
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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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I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances.
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If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.
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Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in a breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
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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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Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you in for the ride?
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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've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
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Imagination is more important than information. Einstein said that, and he should know. And they come. And they look. And we push. And they fly. We to stay and die on our beds. They to go and die howsoever, yet inspiring those who come after them to find their own edge. And fly.
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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 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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It doesn’t matter what you say you believe - it only matters what you do.
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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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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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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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Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.
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