Robert Fulghum

After his triumphant All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten, Robert Fulghum returns with a richer, more mature, more strikingly memorable collection of essays guaranteed to provide hours of heart-warming, humorous entertainment. Villard. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

It Was on Fire When I Lay Down on It

A book to raise the spirits and warm the heart. Includes the famous Kindergarten essay that was read on the floor of the U.S. Senate.

Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things

All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

Uh-oh

Siradan Seyler Üzerine Sira Disi Düsünceler

Ne Biliyorsam Hepsini Anaokulunda Ögrendim

Explores the mysteries of love in a collection of real-life love stories that illuminates the many faces of love

True Love

The author presents a new collection of down-to-earth essays

Second Thoughts from a Secret Life

Maybe (maybe Not)

Jiří Hrubý

Jaroslav Kerles

(neobyčejné přemýšlení o obyčejných věcech)

Všechno, co opravdu potřebuju znát, jsem se naučil v mateřské školce

the rituals of our lives

From beginning to end

Somphō̜n Wannasān-Wānādo

ตํารับนายโรเบิร์ต ฟลูกัม

ธรรมดา ที่ไม่ธรรมดา

In Words I Wish I Wrote, Robert Fulghum reveals the works of writers who have inspired him. During the past four decades he's reviewed and revised the basic principles of his philosophy many times, sometimes as an exercise in personal growth, but more often in response to individual crisis. Then at fifty, seeking a simplicity to counter the complex thinking of his college years, Fulghum wrote a summary essay professing that all he really needed to know he learned in kindergarten. As he approached his sixtieth year, Fulghum became curious about what in his outlook had changed and what had endured. On review, Fulghum explains, everything he has ever said and thought and written is transparent to him now. As hard as he has tried to speak in his own voice, much of what he's said is neither original nor unique. The best ideas are often old and are continually being revived, recycled, renewed. Wherever his search took him, Fulghum found that someone else has been there before. And more often than not, that person has chosen words Fulghum wishes he had written, using language he can't improve upon. To Fulghum, however, this isn't a discouraging realization. It's a recognition n of companionship, which is an affirming consolation. The confirming statements, quotes, and credos that Fulghum recorded in his journals for years are collected here, representing the most important ideas underlying his living and thinking. They are organized thematically into such chapters as Companions, God, Bene-Dictions, Contra-Dictions, Simplify, and Believe. Each begins with Fulghum's own insightful, introductory words, followed by inspiring passages drawn from a diverse group of sources, from Jerry Garcia to Albert Camus, Dylan Thomas to Franz Kafka. At the end of each chapter, Fulghum offers readers his own personal commentary on the sources--where he was introduced to their words, why he returns to them again and again, and how they may change you.

A Collection of Writing That Inspired My Ideas

Words I Wish I Wrote

FROM BEGINNING TO END Why "rituals"? My thinking was set in motion by those who, knowing I was a parish minister for many years, have asked me for advice about ceremonies and celebrations. They wanted words to use at graduations, funerals, and the welcoming of children. They inquired about grace at family meals, the reaffirmation of wedding vows, and ways to heal wounds suffered in personal conflict. People requested help with the rituals of solitude, such as meditation, prayer, and contemplation. . . . Rituals do not always involve words, occasions, officials, or an audience. Rituals are often silent, solitary, and self-contained. The most powerful rites of passage are reflective--when you look back on your life again and again, paying attention to the rivers you have crossed and the gates you have opened and walked on through, the thresholds you have passed over. I see ritual when people sit together silently by an open fire. Remembering. As human beings have remembered for thousands and thousands of years. FULGHUM From the Paperback edition.

From Beginning to End

Third Wish

Maybe (maybe Not).

Examines three levels of observance and celebration of the ritual moments of life, discussing public, private, and secret commemorations of these key rites of passage

The Rituals of Our Lives

The author presents a memorable collection of observations and commentary that range from an account of a disastrous Christmas pageant to travelogues

The Unitarian minister reflects on America and its diverse peoples, everyday wisdoms, kindnesses, and joys, and everyday life's large meanings

Laskavá zamyšlení, drobné příběhy a filozofické postřehy amerického autora, jehož první kniha si získala srdce českých čtenářů. Vyprávění je zcela prodchnuto radostí ze života, průzračným způsobem oslovuje v člověku jeho lepší já a dává smysl i těm nejobyčejnějším věcem na světě.

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