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
exercise power mind
This is an exercise in power - the power of mind over matter. If you don't mind being inadequate, it doesn't matter.
school sunday mountain
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.
believe thinking hard-times
So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it
truth regret believe
Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.
differences oatmeal life-is
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.
weed opportunity garden
If dandelions were rare and fragile, people would knock themselves out to pay $14.95 a plant, raise them by hand in greenhouses, and form dandelion societies and all that. But, they are everywhere and don't need us and kind of do what they please. So we call them weeds and murder them at every opportunity
book church world
It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.
jobs law secret
Public lives are lived out on the job and in the marketplace, where certain rules, conventions, laws, and social customs keep most of us in line. Private lives are lived out in the presence of family, friends, and neighbors who must be considered and respected even though the rules and proscriptions are looser than what's allowed in public. But in our secret lives, inside our own heads, almost anything goes.
picnics life-is examined-life
The examined life is no picnic.
wall stress stupid
For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
funny military school
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.
money real tests
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
heart dark men
I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have - I can reflect light into the dark places of this world - into the black places in the hearts of men - and change somethings in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life.
confused style found
Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.