More - Robert Fulghum Quotes

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

Robert Fulghum

 American Author Children

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger than death

Robert Fulghum

 Belief

Living things have been doing just that for a long, long time. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. We are survivors.

Robert Fulghum

 Disaster

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

Robert Fulghum

 American Author Man

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

Robert Fulghum

 American Author Hurt

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 Tourists

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

Robert Fulghum

 American Author Life

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem. 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 an inconvenience. Life is inconvenient. Life is lumpy. A lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat and a lump in the breast are not the same kind of lump. One needs to learn the difference.

Robert Fulghum

 

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

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