130 Magical Quotes by Dr. Seuss About Living Right

I am weird, you are weird. Everyone in this world is weird. One day two people come together in mutual weirdness and fall in love.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Day Play We play all day. Night Fight We fight all night.

Don't give up! I believe in you all. A person's a person, no matter how small! And you very small persons will not have to die If you make yourselves heard! So come on, now, and TRY!

The people that mind don't matter, and the people that matter don't mind.

In my world, everyone's a pony and they all eat rainbows and poop butterflies!

Through three cheese trees three free fleas flew. While these fleas flew, freezy breeze blew. Freezy breeze made these three trees freeze. Freezy trees made these trees' cheese freeze. That's what made these three free fleas sneeze.

One fish Two fish Red fish Blue fish!

Today you are you! That is truer than true!

Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.

Why fit in when you were born to stand out?

How did it get so late so soon?

Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try.

Children want the same things we want. To laugh, to be challenged, to be entertained, and delighted.

Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who mind don't matter.

So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads.

You're in pretty good shape for the shape you are in.

And when they played they really played. And when they worked they really worked.

You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child.

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.

You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

People are weird. When we find someone with a weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.

There are so many things you can learn about, but you'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

What do you mean you're leaving? You're a baby sitter. Baby sitters don't leave, they sit. Baby leavers leave.

Always remember you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, smarter than you think and twice as beautiful as you've ever imagined.

Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.

You know you are in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good.

I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.

Life's too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right, forgive the ones who don't and believe that everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

Take every chance. Drop every fear.

My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It s the letter I use to spell yuzz a ma tuzz. You ll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond Z and start poking around.

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.

Sometimes, when I see my granddaughters make small discoveries of their own, I wish I were a child.

It is fun to have fun.

And this mess is so big
And so deep and so tall,
We cannot pick it up.
There is no way at all!

Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope.

Did you ever fly a kite in bed? Did you ever walk with ten cats on your head? Did you ever milk this kind of cow? Well, we can do it. We know how. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.

It's high time you were shown
That you really don't know all there is to be known.

Adults are just outdated children.

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!

If you want to catch beasts you don't see every day, You have to go places quite out of the way, You have to go places no others can get to. You have to get cold and you have too get wet, too.

The news just came in from the County of Keck That a very small bug by the name of Van Vleck Is yawning so wide you can look down his neck. This may not seem very important, I know, but it Is, so I'm bothering telling you so.

The moon was out and I saw some sheep.
I saw some sheep take a walk in their sleep.
By the light of the moon, by the light of a star,
They walked all night from near to far.
I would never walk, I would take a car.

I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.

All those Nupboards in the Cupboards they're good fun to have about. But that Nooth gush on my tooth brush.....Him I could do without.

Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand.

Gray day. Everything is gray. I watch. But nothing moves today.

Life's just one great journey. It's a road we travel as we go from point A to point B. What makes that journey worthwhile is the people we choose to travel with, the people we hold close as we take steps into the darkness and blindly make our way through life. They're the people who matter.

When you're in a Slump,
you're not in for much fun.
Un-slumping yourself
is not easily done.

Look at me! Look at me! Look at me NOW! It is fun to have fun But you have to know how.

You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot, for The places and people you're lucky you're not!

You can think about red. You can think about pink. You can think up a horse. Oh, the THINKS you can think!

Just never forget to be dexterous and deft. And never mix up your right foot with your left. And will you succeed? Yes! You will, indeed! (98 and 3 4 percent guaranteed.).

So be sure when you step, Step with care and great tact.

Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.

We've taught you that the earth is round, That red and white make pink, And something else that matters more -- We've taught you how to think.

You can get so confused that you'll start in to race down long wiggled roads at a break-necking pace and grind on for miles across weirdish wild space, headed, I fear, toward a most useless place. The Waiting Place.

Whats the point of fitting in, when we were meant to stand out?

If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said it'd be easy, they just promised it would be worth it.

I'm sorry to say so but, sadly, it's true that Bang-ups and Hang-ups can happen to you.

Pop guns! And bicycles! Roller skates! Drums! Checkerboards! Tricycles! Popcorn! And plums! And he stuffed them in bags. Then the Grinch, very nimbly, Stuffed all the bags, one by one, up the chimbley!

There's no limit to how much you'll know, depending how far beyond zebra you go.

And will you succeed? Yes, you will indeed!

When beetles fight these battles in a bottle with their paddles and the bottle's on a poodle and the poodle's eating noodles... ...they call this a muddle puddle tweetle poodle beetle noodle bottle paddle battle.

Look at life through the wrong end of the telescope.

Don't grumble! Don't stew! Some critters are much-much, Oh, ever so much-much So muchly much-much more unlucky than you!

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.

Whenever things go a bit sour in a job I'm doing, I always tell myself, 'You can do better than this.'

Once-ler! You're making such smogulous smoke -- my poor swomee swans, why they can't sing a note! No one can sing who has smog in his throat.

It's a troublesome world. All the people who are in it are troubled with troubles almost every minute. You ought to be thankful, a whole heaping lot, for the places and people you're lucky you're not.

We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love.

Nonsense wakes up the brain cells. And it helps develop a sense of humor, which is awfully important in this day and age. Humor has a tremendous place in this sordid world. It's more than just a matter of laughing. If you can see things out of whack, then you can see how things can be in whack.

The ribbons! The wrappings! The tags! And the tinsel! The trimmings! The trappings!

You can't dribble on bow ties.

I box in yellow Gox box socks.

I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

The Lorax: Which way does a tree fall? The Once-ler: Uh, down? The Lorax: A tree falls the way it leans. Be careful which way you lean.

I am the Lorax. I speak for the trees. I speak for the trees for the trees have no tongues.

People who mind don't matter. But people who matter don't mind.

I meant what I said and I said what I meant. An elephant's faithful one-hundred percent!

If things start happening, don't worry, don't stew, just go right along and you'll start happening too.

When he worked, he really worked. But when he played, he really played.

I know it is wet and the sun is not sunny, but we can have lots of good fun that is funny.

Cause when a guy does something stupid once, well that's because he's a guy. But if he does the same stupid thing twice, that's usually to impress some girl.

Oh, the places you will go!

I will not eat them in a house, I will not eat them with a mouse, I will not eat them in a box I will not eat them with a fox, I will not eat them here of there I will not eat them anywhere, I do not like green eggs and ham I do not like them Sam I am.

Waiting for the fish to bite or waiting for wind to fly a kite. Or waiting around for Friday night or waiting perhaps for their Uncle Jake or a pot to boil or a better break or a string of pearls or a pair of pants or a wig with curls or another chance. Everyone is just waiting.

Here are some who like to run. They run for fun in the hot, hot sun.

Stop telling such outlandish tales. Stop turning minnows into whales.

Kid, you'll move mountains.

Congratulations! Today is your day!

Being crazy isn't enough.

I'm glad we had the times together just to laugh and sing a song, seems like we just got started and then before you know it, the times we had together were gone.

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

Fame you'll be famous, as famous as can be, with everyone watching you win on TV, Except when they don't because sometimes they won't.

I do not like green eggs and ham. I do not like them, Sam-I-Am.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

It all began with a shoe on the wall. A shoe on the wall shouldn't be there at all.

The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house. All that cold, cold, wet day.

The storm starts, when the drops start dropping
When the drops stop dropping then the storm starts stopping.

You can think about gloves. You can think about snuvs. You can think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.

Think and wonder, wonder and think.

You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go.

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch.
Your heart's an empty hole.
Your brain is full of spiders,
You've got garlic in your soul.

You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.

You can't build a substantial V out of turtles!

Now, the Star-Belly Sneetches had bellies with stars. The Plain-Belly Sneetches had none upon thars.

Fun is good.

You are you. Now, isn't that pleasant?

You have to be a speedy reader 'cause there's so, so much to read!

You can find magic wherever you look. Sit back and relax, all you need is a book.

And the turtles, of course...all the turtles are free, as turtles and, maybe, all creatures should be.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you'll be quite a lot!

You are the guy who'll decide where to go.

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!

Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

You're off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way!

A person's a person, no matter how small.

The main problem with writing in verse is, if your fourth line doesn't come out right, you've got to throw four lines away and figure out a whole new way to attack the problem. So the mortality rate is terrific.

You make 'em, I amuse 'em.

When at last we are sure, You've been properly pilled, Then a few paper forms, Must be properly filled. So that you and your heirs, May be properly billed.

Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn't come from a store.

From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.

Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.