And I’m not confused about the lack of, or the need for, imagination in low or high places. We could do better we must do better. There are far worse things to drop on people than crayolas. Robert Fulghum More Quotes by Robert Fulghum More Quotes From Robert Fulghum About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN! Robert Fulghum games winning play Always trust your fellow man. And always cut the cards. Always trust God. And always build your house on high ground. Always love thy neighbor. And always pick a good neighborhood to live in. Robert Fulghum cutting house men 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. Robert Fulghum friends marriage love-is 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. Robert Fulghum debt blessed needs 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. Robert Fulghum time watches years 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. Robert Fulghum idaho tired people Then he read the words of the scroll slowly, first in Japanese and then carefully translated into English: 'There is really nothing you must be. And there is nothing you must do. There is really nothing you must have. And there is nothing you must know. There is really nothing you must become. However. It helps to understand that fire burns, and when it rains, the earth gets wet. . . .' 'Whatever, there are consequences. Nobody is exempt,' said the master. Robert Fulghum earth fire rain To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level. Robert Fulghum levels wonder grieving to understand our love they'd have to turn the world upside down Robert Fulghum our-love upside-down world Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun. Robert Fulghum live-life life-changing way Liberation, I guess, is everybody getting what they think they want, without knowing the whole truth. Or in other words, liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don't like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of. Here's to the eternal tandem. Robert Fulghum knowing order thinking The name is not important anymore - it's the tone that counts. I feel like an old dog I know. He will come to any name you call him, just so long as your demeanor carries with it the promise of affection and food Robert Fulghum dog names long The Indian danced on alone. The crowd clapped up the beat. The Indian danced with a chair. The crowd went crazy. The band faded. The crowd cheered. The Indian held up his hands for silence as if to make a speech. Looking at the band and then the crowd, the Indian said, "Well, what're you waiting for? Let's DANCE. Robert Fulghum crazy waiting hands 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. Robert Fulghum doctors news lying Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid. Robert Fulghum working-it done stupid All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people. Robert Fulghum costumes names people The kindergarten children are confident in spirit, infinite in resources, and eager to learn. Everything is still possible. Robert Fulghum kindergarten spirit children I wanted to be a citizen of the world but not in a superficial way. Robert Fulghum citizens way world 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 reaching fairy-tale empowering All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sand pile at Sunday School. Robert Fulghum mountain sunday school
