The Rowan Tree Quotes

“The golden rule of relationships is “Cause no indignity.” A loving relationship is one in which both partners take care to protect each other’s dignity. A wounded soul heals more slowly than a wounded body, so it is as important to avoid indignity as it is to avoid outright harm.”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“The true joy of life is being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one … being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap … being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“I like to tease Rowan that he can go ahead and try to reason his way to a new world, but my generation intends to dance our way there.”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“Usually, city lights and smog block the stars, but last night a full moon shone overhead. Gazing upward, I had a vision of pockets of poverty shrinking like puddles in the sun.”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“If we don’t do likewise, we’ll soon have a sclerotic society that takes care of its elders at the expense of its youth.”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“The issue is whether we’ll invite those who are currently taken for nobodies into the human family or force them to crash our gates.”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“Permitting businesses and special interests to fund political campaigns encourages demagoguery and invites corruption. That is not government of the people, by the people, and for the people. It’s government of, by, and for money.”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“I have a feeling you’re going to do your ancestors proud. You know, that’s how the Chinese see it—your accomplishments bring glory not to your descendants, but to your ancestors, in recognition of the fact that it was their sacrifices that put you in a position to do what you do.”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“past.”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“across Jefferson Square to sanctuary in the inn. Good god, he thought, what have I gotten”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“… the children’s eyes In momentary wonder stare upon A sixty-year-old smiling public man. — William Butler Yeats,”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree

“Za vasheh zdahrov-yeh,”
― Robert W. Fuller, The Rowan Tree