![]() ![]() Learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate school mountain, but there in the sandbox at nursery school. “All of what I really need to know about how to live, and what to do, and how to be, I learned in Kindergarten. All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum If you want a unique reading that's a little bit different, this might be the one. This ceremony reading is our second from this writer, and clearly this man has some wisdom! All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten by Robert Fulghum is a non-traditional wedding reading, rather than a gushy love poem, it reads more like a list of guidance for life (think Baz Luhrmann's Sunscreen!). There’s so much to share, but I leave it to you. Peace is not something you wish for it is something you make, something you do, something you are and something you give away. Mother Teresa’s: We can do no great things only small things with great love. or did he remember the cruelty of the robbers? Which one shaped his life? What did he pass on to the strangers in his life? Those in need as he met?”Įverything you can imagine you can make it real – Picasso Click To Tweet What effect did the charity have on the man. “The Good Samaritan… I have wondered about the rest of the story. “It’s about power (and the price) of imagination.” Most of this “something” cannot be seen or heard or numbered. “An everlasting tandem: a liberation finally amounts to being free from things we don’t like in order to be enslaved by things we approve of.” Fulghum’s Exchange Principle extends it: “every person passing through this life will unknowingly leave something and take something away. A child who is impractical, unrealistic, simple-minded and terribly vulnerable to joy. But the spirit of the season has been clear for a long time. And so it has been to this day.” “For others, it maybe an ordinary day. And then God decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish all al human beings. The man said he would like to go about doing something good without knowing about it. “It reminds me of an old Sufi story of a good man who was granted one wish by God. And will be found the same way everybody gets found in Sardines – by the sound of laughter of those heaped together at the end. “It is something I can touch and hold and I believe in, especially when love gets difficult and there are no small arms around my neck anymore.” I think old God is a Sardine player. And really is possible to love someone that much. But there are moments when I look across the room – amid the daily ordinariness of life – and see the person I call my wife and friend and companion. Through hard to explain, there is treasure there.” “There is a sense that we need to go home again – and can go home again. 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.” And maybe spiders tell their kids about it too. Through every kind of disaster and setback and catastrophe. “Living things have been doing just that for a long long time. Of course, I won’t end this book review with out some of my most favorite lines in this book.Ī Few Lessons worth taking notes (but not limited to it are the parts about : That laughter is the only cure for grief.Īnd I believe that love is stronger than death. That hope always triumphs over experience. That dreams are more powerful than facts. Here, he also shared A Storyteller’s Creedwhich goes: I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. He also started this book with a list of basic things we learn in KG that truth be told – still relevant to our “NOW”. It is simply a collection of short narratives in his life which quiet applies to ours too. It is a delightful read that will leave you smiling in between the chapters and pages of this book. Fulghum’s wit and simplifies the ordinary things and made them extra special. There is curiosity that tickles the mind on what he means with it. Genre: Non-Fiction | Published: 1986,1988 ![]() Hahaha :)īook Review ALL I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN By: Robert Fulghum ![]() Been shelving this book for years… (probably more than a decade now!) … Never thought I’d be entertained this much! Thought-provoking, a few basics and some needs processing…. ![]()
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