Explore Quotes by Robert Fulghum

Patterns of repetition govern each day, week, year, and lifetime. 'Personal habits' is one term we use to describe the most common of these repeated patterns. But I say these habits are sacred because they give deliberate structure to our lives. Structure gives us a sense of security. And that sense of security is the ground of meaning.

Most of the time, a kid doesn't think about what he's doing or why. This is the privilege of childhood.

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

Weddings seem to be magnets for mishap and for whatever craziness lurks in family closets. In more ways than one, weddings bring out the ding-dong in everybody involved.

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

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

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

I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart.

The examined life is no picnic.

You are free to give life meaning, whatever meaning you want to give it.

Do you notice that all presidents have a dog? There is always a First Dog. Or two or three. You have to have a dog to be president, I guess.

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.

Everything we do in our growing up has been done before. But it needs recognition and validation each time for each one of us - public, private, and secret.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

It is the chair in honor of all those who, however competently, embrace the impossible. Sit in that chair someday.

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.

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.

The heart will turn to a prune if love is always by the numbers. How will you know if someone really loves you if they only meet your expectations and not your needs?

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

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