I guess when all is said and done you are who you believe you are. . . that should be good enough
for everybody else.
There are beautiful people in similar situations, feeling very much the same things as we.
And though we are alone, in a way we are not, and for me there's a comfort in that.
A weed is no more than a flower in disguise.
The best way to become boring is to say everything.
We all live under the same sky, but we don't have the same horizon.
You don't have to blow out my candle to make yours grow brighter.
If you expect too much from others, they won't ever reach your potential.
All our lives we live in chains and never even know we hold the key.
If you plan on being anything less than you are capable of being, you will probably be
unhappy all the days of your life.
Associate with the noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty.
But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your energies, and so do not wait for, or depend on other
people.
Did you hear about that woman who got paid $3 million for spilling hot coffee on her
crotch at McDonalds? Three million dollars! I wish someone had given me that opportunity before
I wasted all that time in college! If they had just laid it all out for me 'Ok, you can spend
four to five years at a local university, graduate, and earn maybe $30,000 a year, working every
single day for the rest of your life. Or. . . scaling hot java on your crotch - three million!' I'd be like, 'Could that be de-caf? I get irritable.'
You always have two ways to run. . . away from me, and towards.
I'll never know the reason why I always run away.
A man is not where he lives, but where he loves.
Clothes are a language I understand.
On the human level, there are two kinds of pretending. There is a bad kind, where the
pretence is there instead of the real thing; as when a man pretends he is going to help you instead
of really helping you. But there is also a good kind, where the pretence leads up to the real
thing. When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing
you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person
than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling
friendlier than you were. Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving
as if you had it already.
In matters of principle, stand like a rock. In matters of taste, swim with the current.
Yes, you've wonderfully good taste. It's the excuse I've always given for your leading
such a bad life.
He has nothing, but he looks everything.
I hate waiting even for five minutes for anybody. It always makes me rather cross. I am
not punctual myself, I know, but I do like punctuality in others, and waiting, even to be married,
is quite out of the question.
This was a gradual steel frost that started with cold feet and ended with numb hearts.
Even if the voices are not real, they have some good ideas.
Women are repeatedly accused of taking things personally. I cannot see any other honest
way of taking things.
Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall, this day, light such a candle, by God's grace, in
England, as I trust shall never be put out.
How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you? And that awful flower the
other day, the dandelion! It had summed up everything, hadn't it? "What a shame! You're not in
love with anyone!" And why not?
"Why, what's the matter?"
"Nothing Pooh Bear, nothing. We can't all, and some of us don't. That's all there is to it."
"Can't all what?" said Pooh, rubbing his nose.
"Gaiety. Song-and-dance. Here we go round the mulberry bush."
"Oh!" said Pooh. He thought for a long time, and then asked, "What mulberry bush is that?"
"Bon-hommy," went on Eeyore gloomily. "French word for meaning bonhommy," he explained.
"I'm not complaining, but There It Is."
Pity, Montag, pity. Don't haggle and nag them; you were so recently of them yourself.
They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that
this is all one huge, big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that someday it'll
have to hit. They see only the blaze, the pretty fire, as you saw it.
When you deserve it, even the mail can rape you.
You were the same person, no matter what state you happened to be stuck breathing in.
High school is like sickness. Trust me, the fever breaks. Then you get over it.
Eeyore was very glad to be able to stop thinking for a little, in order to say "How do you
do" in a gloomy manner to Pooh.
"And how are you?" said Winnie-the-Pooh. Eeyore shook his head from side to side.
"Not very how," he said. "I don't seem to felt at all how for a long time."
There are those who will wish you good morning. If it is a good morning, which I doubt.
"I don't see much sense in that," said Rabbit.
"No," said Pooh humbly, "there isn't. But there was going to be when I began it. It's just
that something happened to it along the way."
Don't hold onto anything too tightly; sooner or later, you'll have to let go.
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.
You know, Hobbes, sometimes even my lucky rocketship underpants don't help.
We worry about what our child will be tomorrow, yet we forget that he is someone today.
Candy solves everything.
We took so much time finding ourselves, we never got to know each other.
People tend to pass you over just 'cause you don't stand out like flashy sparkles of water,
or stars in the sky.
The hardest thing in the world is having to spend every day so close to someone you know
you can never really be close to.
I need him like I need the air to breathe.
You're stretching out your arms to something thats just not there.
I wish I'd seen you as a little girl, without your armor to fend off the world. . . I
would have kept you underneath my wing. . . I would protect you from everything.
I will always cherish the initial misconceptions I had about you.
