Quotes from Robert Fulghum

It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.

We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.

If you tell people you talk to God, they'll think you're religious, but if you say God talks to you, it's ten to one they'll think you're crazy.

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.

Speed and efficiency do not always increase the quality of life.

Anything not worth doing is worth not doing well.

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?

Only now have I finally realized that my life has been an unending field trip. And I have tried hard not to be a tourist. But to be an adventurer, a traveler, an explorer, a learner, and a pilgrim.

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.

I've always made a clear distinction between making a life and making a living.

One of life's best coping mechanisms is to know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem.

The best feelings in your life come when you start feeling good after you've been feeling just awful

'Who do you think you are?' That's the big one, isn't it? A flourishing life depends on how you answer that.

The winding down of summer puts me in a heavy philosophical mood.

And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.

Just when you thought that you already learned the way how to live, life changes - and you're left the same as you begun.

Now everybody has some secret goals in life.

'Maybe.' There's our word. The wisest answer to ultimate questions.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

All of these are names given me by other people, but not names I would have given myself. My name is not mine, it's theirs. It's a series of costumes put on my life by other people.

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

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

On a very local scale, a refrigerator is the center of the universe. On the inside is food essential to life, and on the outside of the door is a summary of the life events of the household.