Who is Robert Fulghum

Robert Lee Fulghum ( (listen); born June 4, 1937) is an American author and Unitarian Universalist minister.Early careerHe grew up in Waco, Texas and received his Bachelor of Arts at Baylor University in 1958. He received his Bachelor of Divinity at Starr King School for the Ministry in 1961 and was ordained as a Unitarian Universalist minister. Fulghum served the Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship in Bellingham, Washington from 1960–1964, and the Edmonds Unitarian Universalist Church in Edmonds, Washington where he is Minister Emeritus.WritingFulghum came to prominence in the United States when his first collection of writings, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1988), stayed on The New York Times bestseller lists for nearly two years. The collection of essays is subtitle...
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Davidva31696810: "the grass is not in fact always greener on the other side of the fence. fences have nothing to do with it. the grass is greenest where it is watered. when crossing over fence, carry water with you and tend the grass whenever you may be." - robert fulghum
The_stars_100: "peace is not something you wish for. it's something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away." robert fulghum
Coyle1jason: love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief. robert fulghum
Lealvsss: “we’re all a little weird. and life is a little weird. and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness-and call it love -true love.” – robert fulghum
Doctor_156: “we are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.” robert fulghum - true love.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge Poem
Fears In Solitude
 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Written in April 1798, during the alarm of an invasion

A green and silent spot, amid the hills,
A small and silent dell! O'er stiller place
No singing skylark ever poised himself.
The hills are heathy, save that swelling slope,
Which hath a gay and gorgeous covering on,
All golden with the never-bloomless furze,
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