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Robert Fulghum
American
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About the author
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.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#Will
#Day
#Money
#Force
#Schools
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,
American
Author
#Love
#Hope
#Death
#Dreams
#Imagination
#Experience
#History
#Knowledge
#Facts
#Cure
#Grief
#Laughter
#Myth
What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#World
#Man
#Soul
#Profit
To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, 'What's it for?'
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#Existence
The world does not need tourists who ride by in a bus clucking their tongues. The world as it is needs those who will love it enough to change it, with what they have, where they are.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#Love
#Will
#World
#Needs
#Change
#Tourists
The examined life is no picnic.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#Life
Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#Words
#Will
Share everything. Don't take things that aren't yours. Put things back where you found them.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#People
#Hurt
#Play
If you break your neck, if you have nothing to eat, if your house is on fire, then you got a problem. Everything else is inconvenience.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#Nothing
#Fire
I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#Life
#Thought
#Money
#Living
#Worth
All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#Children
#Worry
Clean up your own mess.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
Be aware of wonder. Live a balanced life - learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#Life
#Dance
#Work
#Wonder
#Day
#Play
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,
American
Author
#World
#Old
If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.
Robert Fulghum,
American
Author
#Want
#Party