You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.
And the turtles, of course…all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Remember me and smile, for it’s better to forget than to remember me and cry.
You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room.
You’re in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.
I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.
A person’s a person, no matter how small.
I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights
Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more…
I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.
I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
It’s not about what it is, it’s about what it can become
They say I’m old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!
Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!
How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who’ll decide where to go.
Adults are obsolete children.
The storm starts, when the drops start dropping When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.
When at last we are sure, You’ve been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.
I start drawing, and eventually the characters involve themselves in a situation. Then in the end, I go back and try to cut out most of the preachments.
“Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
“I’m selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can’t handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.”
“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
“So many books, so little time.”
“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter, and those who matter don’t mind.”
“You’ve gotta dance like there’s nobody watching,
Love like you’ll never be hurt,
Sing like there’s nobody listening,
And live like it’s heaven on earth.”
“You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”
“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
“If you want to know what a man’s like, take a good look at how he treats his inferiors, not his equals.”
“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
“Friendship … is born at the moment when one man says to another “What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
“A friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.”
“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
“We accept the love we think we deserve.”
“Without music, life would be a mistake.”
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.”
“I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
“As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.”
“The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
“It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.”
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.”
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
“It is not a lack of love, but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.”
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.”
“A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.”
“I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.”
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.”
“If you don’t stand for something you will fall for anything.”
“Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it’s too dark to read.”
“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.”
“A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.”
“A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one.”
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
“For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.”
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.”
“If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
“I’m not upset that you lied to me, I’m upset that from now on I can’t believe you.”
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.”
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
“Anyone who thinks sitting in church can make you a Christian must also think that sitting in a garage can make you a car.”
“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
“Everything you can imagine is real.”
“Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.”
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
“Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
“You love me. Real or not real?”
I tell him, “Real.”
“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
“Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.”
“All you need is love. But a little chocolate now and then doesn’t hurt.”
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time to give a stupid or misinformed beholder a black eye.”
“If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
“Whenever I feel the need to exercise, I lie down until it goes away.”
“Sometimes people are beautiful.
Not in looks.
Not in what they say.
Just in what they are.”
“The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.”
“You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world…but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices.”
“Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
“One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.”
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.”
“Listen to the mustn’ts, child. Listen to the don’ts. Listen to the shouldn’ts, the impossibles, the won’ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me… Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
“So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I’m still trying to figure out how that could be.”
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.”
“If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you.”
“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”
“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.”
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish its source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”