So the secret to good self-esteem is to lower your expectations to the point where they’re already met?
BILL WATTERSONIf people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently.
More Bill Watterson Quotes
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Dad, how do soldiers killing each other solve the world’s problems?
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I thought my life would seem more interesting with a musical score and a laugh track.
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I wonder where we go when we die?” “…Pittsburgh?” “You mean if we’re good or if we’re bad?
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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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Raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you’re old and weak… Am I scary, or what?
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No sport is less organized than Calvinball.
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Weekends don’t count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.
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Who was the guy who first looked at a cow and said ‘I think I’ll drink whatever comes out of these when I squeeze ’em?
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I don’t know how to spell it and I’m not allowed to say it. Could you just rattle off all the swear words you know and I’ll stop you when…Hello?
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Few things are less comforting than a tiger who’s up too late.
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But Calvin is no kind and loving god! He’s one of the old gods! He demands sacrifice!
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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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Nothing helps a bad mood like spreading it around.
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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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Mothers are the necessity of invention.
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