“Life is like topography, Hobbes. There are summits of happiness and success, flat stretches of boring routine, and valleys of frustration and failure.”
Calvin & Hobbes
“Life's disappointments are harder to take when you don't know any swear words.”
“We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take time to enjoy where we are.”
“If your knees aren't green by the end of the day, you ought to seriously re-examine your life.”
Bill Watterson
“Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.”
“History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction.”
“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 pragmatically turn my whims into principles.”
