There is not enough time to do all the nothing we want to do.
BILL WATTERSONYou will do well to cultivate the resources in yourself that bring you happiness outside of success or failure.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.
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Happiness isn’t good enough for me! I demand euphoria!
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Calvin: Today for show and tell, I’ve brought a tiny miracle of nature: a single snowflake!
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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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Life’s disappointments are harder to take when you don’t know any swear words.
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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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[Calvin and Hobbes are playing Scrabble] Calvin: Ha! I’ve got a great word and it’s on a “Double word score” box! Hobbes: “ZQFMGB” isn’t a word! It doesn’t even have a vowel! Calvin: It is so a word! It’s a worm found in New Guinea!
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Van Gogh would’ve sold more than one painting if he’d put tigers in them.
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God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.
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Tomorrow we’ll not only seize the day, we’ll throttle it.
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So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
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If you give a little credit to the concept of the artist, I think you ought to indulge excesses a bit, because that reflects the personality of the writer.
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I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man’s destruction of forests. . . .
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You realize nothing is as clear as it first appears. Ultimately, knowledge is paralyzing. Being a man of action, I cannot afford to take that risk. Hobbes: You’re ignorant, but at least you act on it.
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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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