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Robert Fulghum, born on June 4, 1937, is an American author known for his warm, humorous, and insightful writing. His book 'All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten' has become a bestseller and influenced many readers.

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Famous Robert Fulghum Quotes

“Everyone has doors in the living room of their lives that they assume are locked. Doors that lead to artistic expression. People say "I have no talent -- I can't dance or sing or paint or write poetry or play an instrument." More often than not the doors are not locked, just closed. One may turn the handle, open the door and pass through into a larger life space.”

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“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.”

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Book:It Was On Fire When I Lay Down On It

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“Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.”

May Arms

Book:Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life

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“Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.”

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Book:Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life

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“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.”

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Book:All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

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“But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.”

May Left Exam

Book:All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

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“You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.”

Thinking Knows May Important Importance Proof Without You

Book:All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

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“I am a fragment of a mirror whose whole design and shape I do not know. Nevertheless, with what I have - I can reflect light into the dark places of this world - into the black places in the hearts of men - and change somethings in some people. Perhaps others may see and do likewise. This is what I am about. This is the meaning of my life.”

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Book:Robert Fulghum's All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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“I love this child. Red-haired - patient and gentle like her mother - fey and funny like her father. When she giggles I can hear him when he and I were young. I am part of this child. It may be only because we share genes and that therefore smell familiar to each other.... It may be that a part of me lives in her in some important way.... But for now, it's jelly beans and 'Old MacDonald' that unite us.”

“If you notice phrases, ideas, and anecdotes that closely resemble those that appear elsewhere in my writing, it's not a matter of sloppy editing. I'm repeating myself. I'm reshuffling words in the hope that just once I might say something exactly right. And I'm still wrestling with dilemmas that are not easily resolved or easily dismissed. I run at them again and again because I am not finished with them. Any may never be. Work-in- progress on a life-in-progress is what my writing is about. And some progress in the work is enough to keep it going on.”

Source: Uh-Oh: Some Observations from Both Sides of the Refrigerator Door

“Life is. I am. Anything might happen. And I believe I may invest my life with meaning. The uncertainty is a blessing in disguise. If I were absolutely certain about all things, I would spend my life in anxious misery, fearful of losing my way. But since everything and anything are always possible, the miraculous is always nearby and wonders shall never, ever cease.”

Source: Maybe (Maybe Not): Second Thoughts from a Secret Life