Robert Fulghum Quotes

other people maay be there to help us, teach us, guide us aolng our path, But the lesson to be learned is always ours

All I really need to know... I learned in kindergarten.

We are people in circumstances who make choices that we think are right at the time.

I would like to enlighten people.

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

I really believe I've been a good person. Not perfect - forget about perfect - but just learning by what I was taught and living by my own values. I might have stepped on a few ants - and a few other things as well - but I've never hurt anybody.

I told my mom I would graduate. I owe that much to her and myself.

I travel all over the world and teach people.

Some people learn from books, some listen to the advice of others, some learn from mistakes. I fit into the last category. So sue me.

I'm having an amazing time teaching through the lives of people much like Jesus did.

I'm trying to teach people not to be selfish. That's the thing. If you have a good thing share it. Of course we're not in a sexual relationship.

In the world I lived in, the world of human people, there were ties and debts and consequences and good deeds. That was what bound people to society; maybe that was what constituted society. And I tried to live in my little niche in it the best way I could.

Classically, very few people have considered that cleanliness is next to godliness. A rank loincloth and hair in an advanced state of matted entanglement have generally been the badges of office of prophets whose injunction to disdain earthly things starts with soap.

Most people are just trying to get through the day. Be committed to learn to get from the day. Don't just get through it; get from it. Learn from it. Let the day teach you. Join the university of life. What a difference that will make in your future. Commit yourself to learning. Commit yourself to absorbing. Be like a sponge. Get it. Don't miss it.

Pure air and water, cleanliness, a proper diet, purity of life, and a firm trust in God are remedies for the want of which thousands are dying; yet these remedies are going out of date because their skillful use requires work that the people do not appreciate.

Parents teach in the toughest school in the world - The School for Making People. You are the board of education, the principal, the classroom teacher, and the janitor.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

The nature of freedom of choice is that some people will misuse their responsibility and hurt themselves in the process. We should do our best to educate them, but without diminishing choice for everyone else.

Let every man be free to act from his own conscience; but let him remember that other people have consciences too; and let not his liberty be so expansive that in its indulgence it jars and crashes against the liberty of others.

People aren't for hitting.

Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.

People should stop poking fun at other people and worry about themselves. The reality is that my movies all have made money.

Don't drive drunk. Ever. Don't shag anyone you don't like, or who doesn't like you. Get a look at how people live in a place where you don't. Suffering is over-rated, don't pursue it. Ask for help when you need it, don't when you don't, and learn to recognize the difference. Don't confuse movement and progress. Be kind. Be forgiving. Pay attention.