Quotes by Bill Watterson

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

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God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
the courage to change the things I can;
and the wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr (Serenity Prayer)

All things at first appear difficult.
- Chinese proverb

A time for work, a time for play -
balance in all things.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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Thank you for joining me on this journey we call life,
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Don't underestimate the value of Doing Nothing,
of just going along,
listening to all the things you can't hear,
and not bothering.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

We don't see things as they are,
we see things as we are.
- Anais Nin

Our lives begin to end the day we become silent
about things that matter.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am one with the Earth,
with the Water, with the Fire,
with the Air that I breathe,
with all Living Things,
and we are all one with Spirit.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed
by the things 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.
- widely misattributed to Mark Twain

I Dream This Day of Wondrous Things,
of Peace and Hope and Pride.
I Dance My Dance with Life Today,
I'm Filled with Love Inside.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves
to recognize how good things really are.
- Marianne Williamson

Stand often in the company of dreamers.
They believe you can achieve impossible things.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

When you can do the common things of life in an uncommon way,
you will command the attention of the world.
- George Washington Carver

Never do things others can do and will do
if there are things others cannot do or will not do.
- Amelia Earhart

All things share the same breath -
the beast, the tree, the man...
the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
- Chief Seattle (attributed)

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- Michael Jordan

It is only through labor and painful effort,
by grim energy and resolute courage,
that we move on to better things.
- Theodore Roosevelt

The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life
than the greatest of things without it.
- Carl Jung

It is not he who reviles or strikes you who insults you,
but your opinion that these things are insulting.
- Epictetus

Management is doing things right;
leadership is doing the right things.
- Peter F. Drucker

If you realize that all things change,
there is nothing you will try to hold on to.
If you are not afraid of dying,
there is nothing you cannot achieve.
- Lao Tzu

People are not disturbed by things,
but by the view they take of them.
- Epictetus

Often, the greatest joy is to be found not in new things,
but in old things seen through new eyes.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

People generally complain about only two things:
when they have less than yesterday,
and when they have less than their neighbor.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are,
and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Josh Billings

As for accomplishments,
I just did what I had to do as things came along.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

Morality is the basis of things
and truth is the substance of all morality.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

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.
- Marilyn Monroe

If we all did the things we are capable of doing,
we would literally astound ourselves.
- Thomas Edison

Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible
things you eliminate from your life,
but by the number of times you eliminate calling them terrible.
- Neale Donald Walsch

When trouble arises and things look bad,
there is always one individual who perceives a solution
and is willing to take command.
Very often, that individual is crazy.
- Dave Barry

I have just three things to teach:
simplicity, patience, compassion.
These three are your greatest treasures.
- Lao Tzu

If we let things terrify us,
life will not be worth living.
- Seneca

Don't try to manage people;
You manage things; You lead people.
- Grace Hopper

It had long since come to my attention
that people of accomplishment
rarely sat back and let things happen to them.
They went out and happened to things.
- Leonardo da Vinci

I know the price of success: dedication, hard work,
and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

The best things in life are free.
- Anonymous

If things are not as you wish,
wish them as they are.
- Yiddish Proverb

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying
about things which are beyond the power of our will.
- Epictetus

Dare to dream of your great success.
Become intimate with those things
which deeply motivate you
and regularly work toward
the realization of that mission.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

You will do foolish things,
but do them with enthusiasm.
- Colette

In this life we cannot do great things.
We can only do small things with great love.
- Mother Teresa

Women must try to do things as men have tried.
When they fail their failure must be
but a challenge to others.
- Amelia Earhart

Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu

Besides the noble art of getting things done,
there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang

Only love and death will change all things.
- Khalil Gibran

Practice yourself, for heaven's sake in little things,
and then proceed to greater.
- Epictetus

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.
- Titus Livius

You manage things, you lead people.
- Grace Hopper

Learn to do common things uncommonly well;
we must always keep in mind that anything
that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.
- George Washington Carver

You see things and you say, Why?
But I dream things that never were and say, Why not
- George Bernard Shaw

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live
that his happiness shall depend
as little as possible on external things.
- Epictetus

Difficulties are things that show a person what he is.
- Epictetus

Good things happen to those who hustle.
- Anais Nin

Do all things with love.
- Og Mandino

If there is any one secret of success,
it lies in the ability to get
the other person's point of view
and see things from that person's angle
as well as from your own.
- Henry Ford

To accomplish great things,
we must not only act, but also dream;
not only plan, but also believe.
- Anatole France

The beginning of wisdom is to
call things by their right names.
- Chinese proverb

The most important things in life
are seldom the most obvious.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Simply put, you believe that things
or people make you unhappy,
but this is not accurate.
You make yourself unhappy.
- Wayne Dyer

Some things will never seem adequate
no matter how hard we try.
- from the movie White Man's Burden

To see things in the seed, that is genius.
- Lao Tzu

Chaos is inherent in all compounded things.
Strive on with diligence.
- The Buddha

Do not seek to bring things to pass
in accordance with your wishes,
but wish for them as they are,
and you will find them.
- Epictetus

There are some things you learn best in calm,
and some in storm.
- Willa Cather

Do first things first, and second things not at all.
- Peter F. Drucker

Sometimes good things fall apart
so better things can fall together.
- Marilyn Monroe

The mystery of the beginning
of all things is insoluble by us;
and I for one, must be content to remain an agnostic.
- Charles Darwin

We keep moving forward, opening new doors,
and doing new things, because we're curious
and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney

All difficult things have
their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
- Lao Tzu

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May the world be kind to you, and may your own thoughts be gentle upon yourself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie