Robert Fulghum
Robert Fulghum
Robert Lee Fulghumis an American author and Unitarian Universalist minister...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionAuthor
Date of Birth4 June 1937
CountryUnited States of America
wonder miraculous cease
But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby, and wonders shall never, ever cease.
wisdom watches hours
Even if your watch is full of diamonds the hour is still 60 minutes
memories home self
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.
home doors historical
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
light vision matter
To look this way is to see. To see is to have vision. To have vision is to understand. To understand is to know. To know is to become. To become is to live fully. To live fully is to matter. And to matter is to become light. And to become light is to be loved. And to be loved is to burn. And to burn is to exist. Off and on.
confused use manuals
Manuals have their uses ... but they are not to be confused with living.
mother father teaching
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.
religious work dirty
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.
life real numbers
Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live the greatest number of lives. Remember: Acting is the same as real life, lived intentionally. Never forget: The Fruit is out on the end of the limb. Go there.
winning games play
About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!
long survivor kind
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.
death white goldfish
Goldfish and hamsters and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup-they all die. So do we.
explanation knows
You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.
dog latin simplicity
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.