In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
BILL WATTERSONIf people looked at the stars each night, they’d live a lot differently. When you look into infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do all day.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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To invent your own life’s meaning is not easy, but it’s still allowed, and I think you’ll be happier for the trouble.
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I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.
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You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
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I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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It’s hard to be religious when certain people are never incinerated by bolts of lightning.
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They say the secret of success is being at the right place at the right time, but since you never know when the right time is going to be, I figure the trick is to find the right place and just hang around.
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In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
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Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery – it recharges by running.
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On the other hand, the mass media is disintegrating, and audiences are atomizing. I suspect comics will have less widespread cultural impact and make a lot less money.
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Sleepwalking?” “Nightmare?” “Homicidal psycho jungle cat!
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Calvin: Know what I pray for? Hobbes: What? Calvin: The strength to change what I can, the inability to accept what I can’t, and the incapacity to tell the difference.
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Getting an inch of snow is like winning 10 cents in the lottery.
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Hobbes: Jump! Jump! Jump! I win! Calvin: You win? Aaugghh! You won last time! I hate it when you win! Aarrggh! Mff! Gnnk! I hate this game! I hate the whole world! Aghhh!
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Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
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