You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know. Robert Fulghum More Quotes by Robert Fulghum More Quotes From Robert Fulghum Do you ever go off with a long grocery list and come home from the store with a bunch of different stuff? And somebody in the family unsacks the groceries and wants to know why you got this and didn't get that and just where is the whatever? And you want to say, 'Well, just be glad I came back, okay?' And the unpacker says, 'Well, next time bring what's on the list.' Robert Fulghum wanthomelong If we could just figure out how to have more fun at it, maybe more of us would join the ranks of those who seek after justice and mercy. Robert Fulghum mercyjusticefun When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret. Robert Fulghum teachingmotherfather I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen. Robert Fulghum religiousworkdirty Now everybody has some secret goals in life. Robert Fulghum life-goalgoalsecret Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values. Robert Fulghum adversitystrongheart The myth of the impossible dream is more powerful than all the facts of history. Robert Fulghum powerfuldreamfacts Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living. Robert Fulghum manualsconfuseduse Infinite possibility in all things is a certainty. That pretty much covers theology and philosophy for me. Robert Fulghum possibilityinfinitephilosophy The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart. Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to use all of my parts. Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are not separate entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same human being. Robert Fulghum takenexerciseheart When my neighbor walks the dogs, he performs a ritual act of sacer simplicitas, to use the church Latin: "sacred simplicity." Walking the dog is in truth a ritual of renewal and revival on an intimate scale - a small rebirth of well-being on a daily basis. Robert Fulghum journeydoglatin Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we. Robert Fulghum styrofoamwhitedeath I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. Robert Fulghum take-a-chanceboredomblessing Why is love easy? I don’t know. And the raccoons don’t say. Robert Fulghum raccoonseasyknows 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. Robert Fulghum bedimportantimagination 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. Robert Fulghum flowerbeerbook But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn. Robert Fulghum examleftmay Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify. Robert Fulghum showing-upbirthfirsts 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 confusedimaginationpeople And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree. Robert Fulghum neighborqualitydifferences
