We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
BILL WATTERSONNever argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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We all have different desires and needs, but if we don’t discover what we want from ourselves and what we stand for, we will live passively and unfulfilled.
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The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
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I’d hate to have a kid like me.
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A box of new crayons! Now they’re all pointy, lined up in order, bright and perfect. Soon they’ll be a bunch of ground down, rounded, indistinguishable stumps, missing their wrappers and smudged with other colors. Sometimes life seems unbearably tragic.
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Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
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History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That’s why events are always reinterpreted when values change.
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When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
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The whole idea of hobknobbing and schmoozing and the concept of an “elite” class of celebrities better than the common people has always made my stomach turn.
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My problem is that I don’t paint ambitiously. It’s all catch and release – just tiny fish that aren’t really worth the trouble to clean and cook.
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That’s one of the remarkable things about life. It’s never so bad that it can’t get worse.
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If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
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So, what’s it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don’t recommend it.
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