"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."
- Dr. Seuss
Compassion
"Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened."
- Dr. Seuss
Happiness
"Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!"
- Dr. Seuss
Self-awareness
"Only you can control your future."
- Dr. Seuss
Empowerment
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go."
- Dr. Seuss
Empowerment
"Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store."
- Dr. Seuss
Generosity
"Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities."
- Dr. Seuss
Imagination
"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go."
- Dr. Seuss
Education
"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells."
- Dr. Seuss
Creativity
"Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!"
- Dr. Seuss
Creativity
"Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act."
- Dr. Seuss
Balance
"I've heard there are troubles of more than one kind; some come from ahead, and some come from behind. But I've brought a big bat. I'm all ready, you see; now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!"
- Dr. Seuss
Facing Fears
"A person's a person, no matter how small."
- Dr. Seuss
Compassion
"You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in."
- Dr. Seuss
Self-esteem
"Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'"
- Dr. Seuss
Motivation
"Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one."
- Dr. Seuss
Contentment
"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child."
- Dr. Seuss
Education
"Fun is good."
- Dr. Seuss
Joy
"How did it get so late so soon? Its night before its afternoon. December is here before its June. My goodness how the time has flewn. How did it get so late so soon?"
- Dr. Seuss
Reflection
"You can get help from teachers, but you are going to have to learn a lot by yourself, sitting alone in a room."
- Dr. Seuss
Education
"Adults are obsolete children."
- Dr. Seuss
Philosophy
"I meant what I said and I said what I meant."
- Dr. Seuss
Integrity
"Every once in a while, I get mad. 'The Lorax' came out of my being angry. The ecology books I'd read were dull... In 'The Lorax,' I was out to attack what I think are evil things and let the chips fall where they might."
- Dr. Seuss
Courage
"Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child."
- Dr. Seuss
Nature