Robert Fulghum Quotes About Adversity
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For thirty years now, in times of stress and strain, when something has me backed against the wall and I'm ready to do something really stupid with my anger, a sorrowful face appears in my mind and asks... "Problem or inconvenience?" I think of this as the Wollman Test of Reality. Life is lumpy. And a lump in the oatmeal, a lump in the throat, and a lump in the breast are not the same lump. One should learn the difference.
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Love is a fabric which never fades, no matter how often it is washed in the water of adversity and grief.
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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.
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Almost anything can be dealt with if people are of good will and light hearts and strong values.
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