Robert Fulghum
For all my good intentions, there are days when things go wrong or I fall into old habits. When things are not going well, when I'm grumpy or mad, I'll realize that I've not been paying attention to my soul and I've not been following my best routine.Collection: Fall
We are the only creatures that both laugh and weep. I think it's because we are the only creatures that see the difference between the way things are and the way they might be.Collection: Thinking
Arguing whether or not a God exists is like fleas arguing whether or not the dog exists. Arguing over the correct name for God is like fleas arguing over the name of the dog. And arguing over whose notion of God is correct is like fleas arguing over who owns the dog.Collection: Dog
Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.Collection: Stupid
The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered.Collection: Grass Is Greener On The Other Side
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?Collection: Games
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.Collection: Love
One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.Collection: Differences
About winning and losing: It isn't important, what really counts is how you play the game. About playing the game: PLAY TO WIN!Collection: Winning
Life is. I am. Anything might happen.Collection: Might
The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.Collection: Inspirational
Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Rain
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.Collection: Taken
A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.Collection: Long
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.Collection: Dream
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 opportunityCollection: Weed
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’.Collection: Long
The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awfulCollection: Feel Good
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feelingCollection: Past
And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?Collection: Why Not
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.Collection: People
My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination - no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It's the way I feel about dancing - you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.Collection: Moving
Never forget that music is too important to be left entirely in the hands of professionals.Collection: Hands
Even the finest workman needs to inspect his work critically.Collection: Needs
You can't always explain everything you do to everybody, you know.Collection: Explanation
Instructions For Wayfarers They will declare: Every journey has been taken. You shall respond: I have not been to see myself. They will insist: Everything has been spoken. You shall reply: I have not had my say. They will tell you: Everything has been done. You shall reply: My way is not complete. You are warned: Any way is long, any way is hard. Fear not. You are the gate - you, the gatekeeper. And you shall go through and on . . . —Alexandros Evangelou Xenopouloudakis, THIRD WISHCollection: Taken
It wasn’t in books. It wasn’t in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.Collection: Book
Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.Collection: Children
We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness – and call it love – true love.Collection: Love
If I don’t have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?Collection: Firsts
Any fool can make enough money to survive. It’s another thing to keep yourself consistently entertained. It’s a lot of work, and a lot of fun, to make a life.Collection: Fun