Interesting, charming, and sometimes funny commentaries on life. His Unitarian beliefs show through at times, and are not always in agreement with an evangelical Christian world view. ( )

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These short tidbits of knowledge may seem trite and trivial, but they can be useful never the less. Everyone can benefit from a reminder of the the basics now and then and this book distills complicated adult issues to a handful of basic truths, principles most of us learned in childhood. Probably over-simplistic, but worth a minute or two of time out once in a while.

An anthology to know a person should live a fulfilling life, the short stories in each chapter are refreshing and amazingly simplistic. ( )

Short thoughtful and humorous essays about life, love and happiness from a former Unitarian minister.

I recently reread this book and found it as wonderful as I remembered. Fulghum is funny and smart and his remarks can be touching and endearing. I agree with so much of his philosophy of life and, like him, would treasure having one day, even one hour, of my childhood back. His memory of riding in a pickup truck with an elderly dog for company is priceless. ( )

This was a funny and meaningful book that was a pleasure to read. Anyone and everyone will love to read this book. ( )

All of Robert Fulgham's books are hilarious! His stories are well told and easy to read and follow. ( )

I have no idea why I bought this book. It was.... an impulse buy, I guess. It was 10cents at a thrift store and I added it to my pile of books without really thinking.

I put off reading it for a long time. It just didn't jump out at me. I flipped through the pages, read a few paragraphs, and always seemed to come to the same conclusion: "meh".

The thing is, I think this is one of those books that *seems* so cliched and annoyingly simple and maybe even stupid, that so many people (including myself) don't want to admit it's underlying awesomeness.

Because that's what it really is. Awesomeness. Pure and simple. I'm not going to say that my life was changed by this book, but I do know for sure that it's lifted my spirits on more then one occasion. Made me think about simpler things, even if only for a minute. Made me realize the little truths that seem so obvious. It's not an end all be all book, and I don't know if I'm any better of a person for reading it. But it put a smile on my face and hope in my heart, and that is more then enough for me. ( )

it was good. I like the way he thinks, it's kind of like me, he thinks way outside the box. It was a really good book and it made me think a lot about different things in life witch I think was his ultimate goal. I want to read the next book; the only thing I didn't like about this book is that he left the bck uncomplete. When I was reading this and I was toward the last few pages and he said how much he liked the way james Joyce ended one of his books I was like oohh noo.. but I guess it worked out for the best. it was intresting. ( )

All I really need to know I learned in Kindergarten

Most of what I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Wisdom was not at the top of the graduate-school mountain, but there in the sandpile at Sunday School.

These are the things I learned:
- Share everything
- Play fair
- Don't hit people
- Put things back where you found them
- Clean up your own mess
- Don't take things that aren't yours
- Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody
- Wash your hands before you eat
- Flush
- Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you
- Live a balanced life -- learn some and think some and draw and paint and sing and dance and play and work every day some
- Take a nap every afternoon
- When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together
- Be aware of wonder

The kind of warm-hearted musings on life that I really enjoy. The man is an expert word-weaver. ( )

Very entertaining. I found myself laughing out loud at times. Mr Fulghum's life lessons should lead other people to change their attitudes. ( )

A book you keep in the bathroom to read your favorite little stories over and over again.

Simple truths. A good book to read when life is overwhelming. ( )

warm hearted hokeyness. ( )

The title tells it all. ( )

This was the first Fulgham book I read and thought I've read most (if not all) of his writing, this is still my favorite. In fact, my high school salutatorian speech was based on the title essay. ( )

I remember reading this, but I don't remember much about it. Mostly nuggets of common sense type "wisdom," and probably very sweet. It didn't make a strong impression, though, other than that I remember selling a lot of copies when I was a bookseller. ( )