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To insist on one's place in the scheme of things and to live up to that place.To empower others in their reaching for some place in the scheme of things.To do these things is to make fairy tales come true.
Robert Fulghum
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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.
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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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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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One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.
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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.
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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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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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Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.
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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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Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.
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Clean up your own mess.
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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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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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to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down
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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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I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.
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I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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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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