Robert Fulghum Quotes

The grass is not, in fact, always 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 you may be.

What the younger generation didn't understand was that the grass was greenest where it's watered.

But the grass ain't always greener on the other side, It's green where you water it

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

I look at what I have not and think myself unhappy; others look at what I have and think me happy.

Compare what you want with what you have, and you'll be unhappy; compare what you deserve with what you have, and you'll be happy.

I cannot tell you how happy and in love I am with everything.

It is more fitting for a man to laugh at life than to lament over it.

The grass isn't always greener on the other side!

Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

Life stinks, but that doesn't mean you don't enjoy it.

I'm really happy in my life.

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

I never admire another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.

I come to work with a smile and I leave with a laugh, and I'm so grateful.

Happiness is very simple and minimal.

You can be happy where you are.

OK, I'm happy. I'm happy. All right? I'm happy.

I think happiness is love.

My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

I'm just an all-around happy girl who loves everything about her life.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

No matter how many frustrations come along, or how many problems arise, I never lose the feeling of how lucky I am. I'm so pleased to be doing a job that makes me laugh every day. I'm aware that it's a huge privilege.

I can only say that whatever my life and work have been, I'm not envious of anyone-and this is my biggest satisfaction.