Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found. Robert Fulghum More Quotes by Robert Fulghum More Quotes From Robert Fulghum It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world. Robert Fulghum church book world It’s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible. Robert Fulghum dream heart hands If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. Robert Fulghum new-year party color Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some. Robert Fulghum dance life thinking Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space. Robert Fulghum writing doors art This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter. Robert Fulghum power mind exercise The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood. Robert Fulghum philosophical mood summer Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong on everybody involved. Robert Fulghum mishaps craziness way One of the very few reasons I had any respect for my mother when I was thirteen was because she would reach into the sink with her bare hands - bare hands - and pick up that lethal gunk and drop it into the garbage. To top that, I saw her reach into the wet garbage bag and fish around in there looking for a lost teaspoon. Bare hands - a kind of mad courage. Robert Fulghum family mother hands The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors. Robert Fulghum imperfect survivor letting-go It's just this: that there are places we all come from-deep-rooty-common places- that makes us who we are. And we disdain them or treat them lightly at our peril. We turn our backs on them at the risk of self-contempt. There is a sense in which we need to go home again-and can go home again. Not to recover home, no. But to sanctify memory. Robert Fulghum self home memories Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way? Robert Fulghum games way world But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease. Robert Fulghum miraculous cease wonder One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. Robert Fulghum coping-mechanisms differences problem The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs? Robert Fulghum love-you heart love-is I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. Robert Fulghum laughter grief hope 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’. Robert Fulghum humanity long needs An artists job is to see. And to go out in the world and see it firsthand, just as it is; to report with line and words what is seen. To be in the world, not just study about the world, that is the artists task Robert Fulghum tasks artist jobs Now Everybody has some secret goals in life...Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time. Robert Fulghum goal secret needs To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?' Robert Fulghum cages bars humanity
