Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
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Vivacity, leadership, must be had, and we are not allowed to be nice in choosing. We must fetch the pump with dirty water, if clean can not be had.
No involvement, no commitment.
The person who will not stand for something will fall for anything.
There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.
In everything the ends well defined are the secret of durable success.
It is possible to fail in many ways while to succeed is possible only in one way.
Be patient with your enemies and forgiving of your friends.
To me, at least the way that I teach it, all types of knowledge ultimately means self-knowledge. So, therefore they're coming in and asking me to teach them not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body.
I bet you can squeal like a pig.
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties. No religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
What's another word for thesaurus ?
Live your dreams.
Love is the whole and more than all.
Ideas attract money, time, talents, skills, energy and other complementary ideas that will bring them into reality.
Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon, everything's different.
Only a fool knows everything. A wise man knows how little he knows.
Throughout the centuries there have been men who took the first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision.
Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value.
The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.
I am big ! It's the pictures that got small.
Action may not always bring happiness , but there is no happiness without action.
Rock and roll is the music of America, of youth, of rebellion, and of the common spirit that ties all that together.
Start by doing what is necessary, then what is possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
Only in his own way and not in any other can the one who strives perfect himself. He who lays hold of the rung of his companion and lets go of his own rung, through him neither the one nor the other will be realized.
The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain - and the whole world is at your feet.
Love never claims, it ever gives.
The reason most people never reach their goals is that they don't define them, learn about them, or even seriously consider them as believable or achievable. Winners can tell you where they are going, what they plan to do along the way, and who will be sharing the adventure with them.
If you would be loved, love and be lovable.
Some people come into our lives and quickly go, some stay for a while and leave footprints in our hearts, and we are never, ever the same.
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
I have said nothing because there is nothing I can say that would describe how I feel as perfectly as you deserve it.
I love great music and art, but I think 'cubist' songs and paintings are hideous.
Attitudes are contagious. Make yours worth catching.
The only people who find what they are looking for in life are the fault finders.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
Where's the rest of me ?
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing flawlessly.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The several tribes of indians inhabiting the regions of the upper missouri, and of whom I spoke in my last letter, are undoubtedly the finest looking, best equipped, and most beautifully costumed of any on the continent.
Most of us are frightened of dying because we don't know what it means to live. We don't know how to live, therefore we don't know how to die. As long as we are frightened of life we shall be frightened of death.
You can't expect people to look eye to eye with you if you are looking down on them.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
In prosperity, our friends know us , in adversity, we know our friends.
I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Where there is great love, there are always wishes.
Hunker down.
The shortest way to do many things is to do only one thing at a time.
Ideals are like stars, you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
Deals are my art form. Other people paint beautifully on canvas or write wonderful poetry. I like making deals, preferably big deals. That's how I get my kicks.
The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.
Forget about it.
Adversity is sometimes hard upon a man , but for one man who can stand prosperity, there are a hundred that will stand adversity.
The idea of working all your life, saving, and putting money into a retirement account is a very slow plan.
Success in the affairs of life often serves to hide one's abilities, whereas adversity frequently gives one an opportunity to discover them.
He who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
Our limitations and success will be based most often on our own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.
The purpose of life is not to be happy but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.
In a great romance, each person basically plays a part that the other really likes.
Whoever said anybody has a right to give up ?
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
Fortune and love favor the brave.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think another negative thought.
Be grateful to the Man you help, think of him as god. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship god by helping our fellow men ?
To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with.
I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is to try to please everyone.
A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous.
Flowing blood is proof that you're alive, if it's for the sake of those you love
Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances.
And now here is my secret, a very simple secret. It is only with the heart that one can see rightly, what is essential is invisible to the eye.
Some say you have to use your five best players, but I found out you win with the five that fit together best as a team
Happiness resides not in possessions and not in gold , the feeling of happiness dwells in the soul.
Oh, love is real enough, you will find it someday, but it has one archenemy and that is life.
Freedom requires the capacity to accept, bear and live constructively with anxiety. I refer of course to the normal anxiety all of us experience at every step in our psychological growth as well as in this upset contemporary world. To be free means to face and bear anxiety, to run away from anxiety means automatically to surrender one's freedom.
What nature delivers to us is never stale. Because what nature creates has eternity in it.
In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.
You have within you right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the world can throw at you.
Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes !
Chance is the fool's name for fate.
You can not step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.
My experience will help, but I insist and maintain that art - true art that is - cannot be handed out. Furthermore, art is never decoration or embellishment. Instead it is a constant process of maturing.
We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions, so we have to know how to act.
Repeat anything long enough and it will start to become you.
To succeed... you need to find something to hold on to, something to motivate you, something to inspire you.
It is not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbled, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again, who knows great enthusiasms, great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who, at the best, knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.
Friendship doubles joy and halves grief.
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.
Let those love now who never loved before. Let those who always loved, now love the more.
The calla lilies are in bloom again.
Live with passion.
Never close your lips to those whom you have opened your heart.
Better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness.
A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him.
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.