“I hate to think that all my current experiences will someday become stories with no point.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“Wow, it really snowed last night! Isn't it wonderful? Everything familiar has disappeared! The world looks brand new!
A new year ... a fresh, clean start! It's like having a big white sheet of paper to draw on! A day full of possibilities! It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy ... let's go exploring!”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“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.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“The secret to enjoying your job is to have a hobby that's even worse”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“It's a magical world, Hobbes, ol' buddy... Let's go exploring!”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“Calvin: Trick or Treat!
Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be?
Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, 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!
...Boy, am I scary or what?”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“Even when you look for it, you're never prepared for it.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“Calvin: Dear Santa, before I submit life to your scrutiny, I demand to know who made YOU the matter of my fate?! Who are YOU to question my behavior, HUH??? What gives you the right?!
Hobbes: Santa makes the toys, so he gets to decide who to give them to.
Calvin: Oh.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“Things I will never like: 1. Drying off with a cold, damp towel. 2. The feeling of seaweed wrapping around my legs. 3. Anything that was popular in the 70's. 4. Licorice, yam, or raisins. 5. That high-pitched screech that babies make. 6. Writhing maggots.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“When a person pauses in mid-sentence to choose a word, that's the best time to jump in and change the subject! It's like an interception in football! You grab the others guy's idea and run the opposite way with it! The more sentences you complete, the higher your score! The idea is to block the other guy's thoughts and express your own! That's how you win!
Conversations aren't contests!
Ok, a point for you, but I'm still ahead.”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
“Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads.
I wonder which one YOU are.
I pragmatically turn my whims into principles!”
― Bill Watterson, quote from It's a Magical World
Bill Watterson
Born place: in Washington, D.C., The United States
Born date July 5, 1958
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“That's the sacred intent of life, of God--to move us continuously toward growth, toward recovering all that is lost and orphaned within us and restoring the divine image imprinted on our soul.”
― Sue Monk Kidd, quote from When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life's Sacred Questions
“Design is, literally, purposeful planning. Graphic Design, then, is the form those plans will take.”
― Chip Kidd, quote from The Cheese Monkeys
“we can make a reasonable argument that engaging (well) in difficult conversations is a sign of health in a relationship.”
― quote from Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most
“Based upon the tournament results and the formal propositions, four simple suggestions are offered for individual choice: do not be envious of the other player’s success; do not be the first to defect; reciprocate both cooperation and defection; and do not be too clever.”
― quote from The Evolution of Cooperation
“Listen to the air. You can hear it, feel it, smell it, taste it. Woniya wakan—the holy air—which renews all by its breath. Woniya, woniya wakan—spirit, life, breath, renewal—it means all that. Woniya—we sit together, don’t touch,
but something is there; we feel it between us, as a presence. A good way to start thinking about nature, talk about it. Rather talk to it, talk to the rivers, to the lakes, to the winds as to our relatives.”
― John (Fire) Lame Deer, quote from Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions
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