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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.
Robert Fulghum
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Robert Fulghum
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: June 4
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Robert Lee Fulghum
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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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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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Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.
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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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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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Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.
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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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Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
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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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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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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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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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But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.
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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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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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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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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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