Robert Fulghum Quotes – Words of Wisdom and Inspiration

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. – Robert Fulghum

People often say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, and I say that the most liberating thing about beauty is realizing that you are the beholder. – Robert Fulghum

Don’t worry about what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive. – Robert Fulghum

The grass is not, in fact, always greener on the other side of the fence. No, not at all. Fences have nothing to do with it. The grass is greenest where it is watered. When crossing over fences, carry water with you and tend the grass wherever you may be. – Robert Fulghum

When you love someone, you do not love them all the time, in exactly the same way, from moment to moment. It is an impossibility. It is even a lie to pretend to. And yet this is exactly what most of us demand. – Robert Fulghum

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away. – Robert Fulghum

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams… Man… is above all the plaything of his memory. – Robert Fulghum

Think what a better world it would be if we all—the whole world—had cookies and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and then lay down with our blankies for a nap. Or if all governments had as a basic policy to always put things back where they found them and to clean up their own mess. – Robert Fulghum

All I really needed to know, I learned in kindergarten. – Robert Fulghum

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. – Robert Fulghum

I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. – Robert Fulghum

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. – Robert Fulghum

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm. – Robert Fulghum

And it is still true, no matter how old you are, when you go out into the world it is best to hold hands and stick together. – Robert Fulghum

The biggest myth about love is that it’s easy. Love is hard. Love is wonderful. Love is painful. Love is sacrifice. But love is absolutely worth it. – Robert Fulghum

Don’t worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you. – Robert Fulghum

Expectations are the root of all heartache. – Robert Fulghum

I believe that love expands. As you give love, it expands. Your capacity for love expands. And as love expands, it adds joy and meaning to your life. – Robert Fulghum

Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events. – Robert Fulghum

I don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. It’s not promised. So I’ll be kind and truthful and silly and compassionate today. – Robert Fulghum

When you look at what is happening in the world today, Lent seems to be everyday. – Robert Fulghum

Money, position, and power can many things. But it cannot buy one thing: it cannot buy a home in the kingdom of heaven. – Robert Fulghum

The six R’s are: Recycle, Repair, Reclaim, Regenerate, Reuse, Rejoice! – Robert Fulghum

We’re all citizens of the planet. Whether we realize it or not. Whether we like it or not. Together we’re part of something bigger and more important than any one of us. You scratch the world at your peril. – Robert Fulghum

I don’t want your hope. I don’t want you to be hopeful. I want you to have faith and to do your works and to love the individual person before you. Not to begrudge your neighbor his bread or his joy or his love. Not to forget the work of love as you go about your busy day. Let the mantra of your silence be a different refrain: Thy will, not mine be done. – Robert Fulghum

We have power. More than we can imagine. We have the power to change the world. And if we don’t, other people will. – Robert Fulghum

Whoever said anyone has the right to give up? – Robert Fulghum

Sometimes life feels like a soup with too many ingredients and not enough flavor. Sometimes it feels like a delicatessen sandwich with half a workload of baloney. – Robert Fulghum

For people of color, yelling at white people might be justified rage, and we ought to be big enough to listen. For white people, as we face our fears, ignorance, and unearned privilege, confusion is a painful and predictable response. – Robert Fulghum

Nothing is withheld from us which we have conceived to do. The only thing we are required to do is what we would do if we knew that within one mile within our own home there was a sinister of enemy growing in power daily and hourly against us. – Robert Fulghum

If the only prayer you said in your whole life was, “thank you,” that would suffice. – Robert Fulghum

There is a general and most desperate scarcity of what everybody desires. – Robert Fulghum

Chaos and contradiction constitute the universe of all things human. – Robert Fulghum

Such is the way of the world, and object lesson to us all. – Robert Fulghum

Ride right through them, they’re demoralized as hell! – Robert Fulghum

The seamless coats make it difficult to tell exactly where the word ends and the world begins. – Robert Fulghum

I have read the report of the speech or statement given by you to the press on your return to London. – Robert Fulghum

If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you’ve got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience. – Robert Fulghum

Have you ever been going about your everyday life and suddenly it occurs to you that you need to do some laundry? – Robert Fulghum

The whole idea of recipes is to take some ordinary ingredients and produce something extraordinary. – Robert Fulghum

And don’t bet a penny that the miller’s wife won’t divorce him and take over the business. – Robert Fulghum

All I really needed to know I learned in kindergarten. All I really needed to know about how to live and what to do and how to be, I learned in kindergarten. – Robert Fulghum

Hold hands. Stick together. Do your best. Laugh. Share. Lie down someplace cool and take a nap. – Robert Fulghum

There are churches burning all over the place. – Robert Fulghum

I attempted to salvage the film from its burning plastic canister. – Robert Fulghum

No matter what the temperature of the air, you’ve got something neat to do. – Robert Fulghum

A new life always carries implications. – Robert Fulghum

The most interesting comment about this piece of prose came from a young woman who said she really enjoyed it with her feet up on the coffee-table. – Robert Fulghum

After all, life is a fire and all is lost if we sit beside it in silence. – Robert Fulghum

Perhaps God is in the details of every day. Perhaps He’s more apparent in the details than the big events, and we could see Him without our glasses or hearing aid if we attended to the small. – Robert Fulghum