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Robert Lee Fulghum (/ˈfʊldʒəm/ ( listen); born June 4, 1937) is an American author and Unitarian Universalist minister.

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When my father finally got around to teaching me to drive, he was impressed at my "natural" talent for driving, not knowing that I had already been secretly driving my mother's car around the neighborhood. When I took the test and got my license and my father gave me my own set of keys to the car one night at dinner, it was a major rite of passage for him and my mother. Their perception of me had changed and was formally acknowledged. For me the occasion meant a private sanction to do in public what I had already been doing in secret.

Father, Impressed, Mother, Public, Secret, Teaching

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

Differences, Life, Make, Neighbor, Neighbors, Quality

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.

Eat, Fire, Future, Life, Neck, Positive

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 on everybody involved.

Closets, Craziness, Everybody, Magnets, Mishaps, Way

Manuals have their uses. . . but they are not to be confused with living.

Confused, Living, Manuals, Use

These are the things I learned: share everything, play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them. Clean up your own mess. Don't take things that aren't yours. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody. Wash your hands before you eat. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life. Learn some and think some and draw some and paint and sing and dance and play and work some every day. Take a nap every afternoon, and, when you go out into the world, watch for traffic, hold hands, and stick together.

Hurt, People, Sorry, Take, Think, Thinking

But it does no good--solves nothing--to distance myself from the front lines of human need by using the mail as a safe shelter. I believe that serving the best ends of humanity means getting out in the middle of it just as it is, not staying home writing checks and thinking hopeful thoughts. 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. And you're damned right that's idealistic. No apology. When idealism goes into the trash as junk mail, we're finished.

Believe, Distance, Idealism, Mail, Mean, Ride

If only the scientific experts could come up with something to get it out of our minds. One cup of fixit fizzle that will lift the dirt from our lives, soften our hardness, protect our inner parts, improve our processing, reduce our yellowing and wrinkling, improve our natural color, and make us sweet and good.

Color, Fixit, Mind, Protect, Reduce, Sweet

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?

Heart, Love Is, Love You, Loves, Prune

The gift was not large as money goes, and my need was not great, but the spirit of the gift is beyond price and leaves me blessed and in debt.

Blessed, Debt, Large, Needs, Price

You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions.

Corruption, Doctors, Lie, Lying, News, Steal

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.

Adventurer, Fields, Realized, Tourists, Unending

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.

Crazy, People, Religious, Say, Thinking

Ignorance and power and pride are a deadly mixture, you know.

Ignorance, Know, Mixture, Mixtures, Power, Pride

I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling

Feelings, Good, Listed, Past, Turned, Years

For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks. . . "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.

Backed, Difference, Learn, Stress, Stupid, Wall

The older I get, the more I realize the importance of exercising the various dimensions of my body, soul, mind, and heart. Taken together, these aspects give me a sense of wholeness. I want to be a whole human being rather than one who limps on one leg because I don't know how to use all of my parts. Intellectual, emotional, and physical activity are not separate entities. Rather, they are dimensions of the same human being.

Body, Exercise, Heart, Importance, Same, Taken

Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there at the sandpile at Sunday School.

Mountain, Sandpile, School, Sunday, Top, Wisdom

Every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered or scientifically detected or counted. It’s what we leave in the minds of other people and what they leave in ours. Memory. The census doesn’t count it. Nothing counts without it.

Counted, Life, Memories, Mind, People, Take

Peace is not something you wish for, � it is something you make, something you are, something you do,�and something you give away.

Motivational, Forgiveness, Peace, Away, Wish

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