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Bill Watterson

Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine and valleys of frustration and failure.
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Frustration Life Like Running
Childhood is for spoiling adulthood.
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Adulthood Childhood Spoiling
For me, it’s been liberating to put myself in the mind of a fictitious six year-old each day, and rediscover my own curiosity.
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Curiosity Ideas Play Years
Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Cute Friday Life Sunday
They can’t chain my spirit! My spirit runs free! Walls can’t contain it! Laws can’t restrain it! Authority has no power over it!
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Law Lawn Over Running Spirit Wall
Calvin: Life’s a lot more fun when you aren’t responsible for your actions.
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Action Fun Hobbes
Never argue with a six-year-old who shaves.
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Argue Shaves Six Years
When life gives you lemons, chunk it right back.
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Fun Giving Hilarious
Every time I’ve built character, I’ve regretted it.
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Built Character Regretted
I’ve got to start listening to those quiet, nagging doubts.
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Doubt Listening Nagging
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.
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Contact None Sometimes Think Universe
I can never enjoy Sundays, because in the back of my mind I always know I’ve got to go to school the next day. It’s like trying to enjoy your last meal before the execution.
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Enjoy School Smock Sunday
No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Less Organized Sports
Calvin: Medically speaking:. That’s love?!?….. Hobbes: Heck, that happened to me once, but I figured it was cooties!!
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Cooties Figured Happened Hobbies Love
Reading those turgid philosophers here in these remote stone buildings may not get you a job, but if those books have forced you to ask yourself questions about what makes life truthful, purposeful, meaningful, and redeeming.
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Book Jobs Meaningful
You will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure. The truth is, most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.
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Failure Headed Resources Success Truth

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