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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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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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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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I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
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Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
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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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And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.
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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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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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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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It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.
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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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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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If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
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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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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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Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say.
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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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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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Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
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The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.
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