Don't worry that children never listen to you; worry that they are always watching you.

—Robert Fulghum

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About Robert Fulghum

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Robert Lee Fulghum ( ; born 1937) is an American author and Unitarian Universalist minister.

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I once listed all the good things I did over the past year and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.

—Robert Fulghum

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.

—Robert Fulghum

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I was watching my friends live around me, but I wasn't living. I was getting by. Making it day to day.

—Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight

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You can observe a lot just by watching.

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There are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it, like in the Bible with the locusts. And other people who stand around and watch them eat it.

—Lillian Hellman

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