1. “All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all -- look.”
2. "Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you."
3. Fulghum’s Recommendation’s: (somewhere between Murphy’s Law and The Ten Commandments)
1) Buy lemonade from any kid who is selling.
2) Anytime you can vote on anything—vote!
3) Attend the 25th reunion of your high school class.
4) Choose having time over having money.
5) Always take the scenic route.
6) Give at least something to any beggar who asks.
7) Give money to all street musicians.
8) Always be someone’s Valentine.
9) When the circus comes to town, be there.
4. “I believe that human freedom may be defined in one term, which serves as a little brick propping open the door of existence. Maybe.”
5. "I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge
That myth is more potent than history
That dreams are more powerful than facts
That hope always triumphs over experience
That laughter is the only cure for grief
And I believe that love is stronger than death."
6. “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.”
7. ”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.”
8. “I see ritual when people sit together silently by an open fire. Remembering. As human beings have remembered for thousands and thousands of years.”
9. “It’s hard to judge without a lot more information. Oh sure, we go ahead and judge anyhow. But, maybe, if judgement were suspended a bit more often, we would like us more.”
10. "Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart."
11. “Live a balanced life - Learn some and think some, and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”
12. ”Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A beauty bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. It would explode high in the air - explode softly - and send thousands, millions, of little parachutes into the air. Floating down to earth - boxes of Crayolas. And we wouldn't go cheap, either - not little boxes of eight. Boxes of sixty-four, with the sharpener built right in. With silver and gold and copper, magenta and peach and lime, amber and umber and all the rest. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.”
13. “Once you get a handle on the infinite cycle of the restless existence of all things, do you despair or do you willingly take your place in the circle? Does enlightenment lead to sorrowful disengagement or willing participation? Once you know where the roller coaster is going, are you still in for the ride?”
14. “Sticks and stones may break our bones,
But words will break our hearts.”
15. “Surprise is at the core of existence. It’s true. You never, ever really quite know what’s coming next.”
16. “The grass is not, in fact, 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 it may be.”
17. “The line between good and evil, hope and despair, does not divide the world between "us" and "them." It runs down the middle of every one of us.”
18. “There is really nothing you must be.
And there is nothing you must do.
There is really nothing you must have.
And there is nothing you must know.
There is really nothing you must become.
However, it helps to understand that fire burns,
And, when it rains, the earth gets wet.
Whatever, there are consequences.
Nobody is exempt.”
19. “The weather of love comes and goes. And we must let it. It is a required condition of loving someone and being loved back.”
20. “We are as different from one another on the inside of our heads as we appear to be different from one another on the outside of our heads.”
21. “We are not the stony dry ground over which the wind blows and the rivers run. No, we are part of that energy which gives the wind motion and drives the river to the sea.”
22. “We are survivors. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe, just like the spider in the spider song. And we teach our kids about that. And maybe spiders tell their kids about it, too, in their spider sort of way.”
23. “When ol’ big Al (Einstein) was in residence at the Institute for Advanced Studies at Princeton, a guest once asked to be shown Einstein’s laboratory. And the great man smiled, held up his fountain pen, pointed at his head. Oooo wow!”
24. "When we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them
and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness - and call it love - true love."
