R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

I used to know things intellectually, but now I feel them. Now I feel that my body is part of nature, so being sick is just a process of nature, and death is a process of nature, and being reborn through the soil is a process of nature.

I can’t hate people for making judgment on me, or making a decision of liking me or not liking me. All I can do is try to better as a person. And I’m good with knowing everything isn’t always going to be perfect.

I think saying you're bad at something is rather wonderful because then it doesn't matter anymore.

Everything that's realistic has some sort of ugliness in it. Even a flower is ugly when it wilts, a bird when it seeks its prey, the ocean when it becomes violent.

Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature's delight.

I learned one thing - never hate a positive option.

In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

A good garden may have some weeds.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

I mean, the truth of the matter is, I like the failures as much as I like the successes, it's only the world that doesn't like the failures.

No one is perfect, and criticism is always welcome and expected.

I don't like to focus on things that don't make me happy and that I can't change. I'd rather try my best to learn from it and move on.

I learnt a lot from a psychological point of view about having to move on and flush things and not live on previous mistakes.

I've been in lots of situations in my life where I've managed to turn pain into growing pains.

I'm a normal person, and I'm going to make mistakes. I think people have to accept that.

Mistakes are normal; everyone makes them.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

In the fall, you don't grieve because the leaves are falling and dying. You say, "Isn't it beautiful!" Well, we're the same way. There are seasons. We all fall sooner or later. It's all so beautiful. And our concepts, without investigation, keep us from knowing this. It's beautiful to be a leaf, to be born, to fall, to give way to the next, to become food for the roots. It's life, always changing its form and always giving itself completely. We all do our part. No mistake.

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

You don't have to be perfect; you just have to be open.

I saw that we're all doing the best we can. This is how a lifetime of humility begins.

If we allow ourselves to dwell on negatives, on hurts, on mistreatments, we will be negative thinkers. So be open to positive thinking, THINK BIG!