Frases de Robert Fulghum

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“Por que certas pessoas gritam tanto? Seres vivos em geral, gente, árvore, são extremamente sensíveis a gritos. Com paus e pedras podemos partir ossos, mas com palavras partimos corações.”

“Estamos todos um pouco estranhos. E a vida é um pouco estranha. E quando encontramos alguém cuja estranheza é compatível com a nossa, nós juntamos com essa pessoa e caímos nessa esquisitice mutuamente satisfatória a que chamamos de verdadeiro amor.”

“Ao sair para o mundo é sempre melhor darmos as mãos e ficarmos juntos.”

“Acredito que mais forte que a sabedoria, é a imaginação. Que mais potente que a história, é o mito. Que a esperança sempre triunfa sobre a experiência. Que a única cura para a dor é o sorriso. Que mais poderosos que a realidade, são os sonhos.”

“You may never have proof of your importance but you are more important than you think. There are always those who couldn’t do without you. The rub is that you don’t always know who.”

“Yelling at living things does tend to kill the spirit in them. Sticks and stones may break our bones, but words will break our hearts.”

“Hide-and-seek, grown-up style. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought. Confused about being found.”

“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.”

“A giraffe has a black tongue twenty-seven inches long and no vocal cords. A giraffe has nothing to say. He just goes on giraffing.”

“Live a balanced life — learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some.”

“Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.”

“Love is the grand prize and the garbage heap. Love is a spiritual root canal and the only thing that makes life worth living. Love is a little taste of always and a big bite of nothing. And love is everything in between these extremes.”

“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.”

“It’s the spirit here that counts. The time may be long, the vehicle may be strange or unexpected. But if the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand, everything is still possible.”

“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.”

“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?”

“If I don't have time to live my life well the first time, when am I going to find the time to go back and live it over?”

“The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.”

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

“But love may have to be left off the exam. Most of us will never learn.”

“Everything I need to know… I learned in kindergarten.”

“I get tired of hearing it's a crummy world and that people are no damned good. What kind of talk is that? I know a place in Payette, Idaho, where a cook and a waitress and a manager put everything they've got into laying a chicken-fried steak on you.”

“Remember, most of us got something for nothing the first time just by showing up here at birth. Now we have to qualify.”

“And sure, I know if you eat this way you'll die. So? If you don't eat this way you're still going to die. Why not die happy?”

“If the dream is held close to the heart, and imagination is applied to what there is close at hand. Everything is still possible.”

“So you drive as far as you can, even when you can clearly read the sign. You want to think you are exempt, that it doesn’t apply to you. But it does. Life is still a dead end. And we still have a hard time believing it”

“We even make ourselves up, fusing what we are with what we wish into what we must become. I'm not sure why it must be so, but it is.”

“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.”

“Never, ever regret or apologize for believing that when one man or one woman decides to risk addressing the world with truth, the world may stop what it is doing and hear. There is too much evidence to the contrary.”

“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.”

“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge —
That myth is more potent than history.
I believe 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.”

“Now Everybody has some secret goals in life… Sometimes you can get what you want and what you need at the sames time.”

“To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.”