Share everything. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Put things back where you found them.

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Robert Lee Fulghum is an American author and Unitarian Universalist minister.

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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 writer

Play fair. Don’t hit people. Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.

Robert Fulghum

American writer

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 writer

Share everything. Don’t take things that aren’t yours. Put things back where you found them.

Robert Fulghum

American writer

Sticks and stones will break our bones, but words will break our hearts.

Robert Fulghum

American writer

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 writer

To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence, hollering, ‘What’s it for?’

Robert Fulghum

American writer

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 writer

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

Robert Fulghum

American writer

All I really need to know… I learned in kindergarten.

Robert Fulghum

American writer

What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul?

Robert Fulghum

American writer

If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

Robert Fulghum

American writer

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 writer

The examined life is no picnic.

Robert Fulghum

American writer

I’ve always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that’s the real test.

Robert Fulghum

American writer

Clean up your own mess.

Robert Fulghum

American writer

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 writer