First, who is Dr. Seuss? According to his website,
Theodor Seuss Geisel — known as “Ted” to family and friends — liked to say that he adopted the name “Dr. Seuss” because he was saving his real name for the Great American Novel he would one day write. But that’s probably not true. When talking to the media, Geisel was more interested in telling a good story than he was in telling a true story. The true story is also a good one, as we learn in Judith and Neil Morgan’s excellent biography Dr. Seuss & Mr. Geisel (the primary source for what you are now reading). During his senior year at Dartmouth College, Ted Geisel and nine of his friends were caught drinking gin in his room. This was the spring of 1925, and the dean put them all on probation for violating the laws of Prohibition. He also stripped Geisel of his editorship of Jack-O-Lantern — the college’s humor magazine — where Ted published his cartoons. To evade punishment, Ted Geisel began publishing cartoons under aliases: L. Pasteur, D.G. Rossetti ’25, T. Seuss, and Seuss. These cartoons mark the first time he signed his work “Seuss.
Anyway, here's the list of my top 30 favorite quotes from "The Lorax", "Oh, The Places You'll Go", "Green Eggs and Ham", and "Horton Hears A Who!":
30 Dr. Seuss Quotes that Can Change Your Life
1. Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.
2. Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.
3. Why fit in when you were born to stand out?
4. Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.
5. You'll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.
6. Think and wonder, wonder and think.
7. Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting so… get on your way.
8. Unless!
9. THINK! You can think any THINK that you wish…
10. If you never did, you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
11. You have brains in your head. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.
12. You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant?
13. Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
14. It is better to know how to learn than to know.
15. Everything stinks till it's finished.
16. The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn the more places you'll go.
17. A person's a person, no matter how small.
18. I meant what I said and I said what I meant.
19. Only you can control your future.
20. Be awesome! Be a book nut!
21. Be who you are and say what you mean.
Because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
22. Oh, the things you can find if you don't stay behind!
23. It's opener, out there, in the wide, open air.
24. Teeth are always in style.
25. Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.
26. Will you succeed? Yes you will indeed! Ninety-eight and three-quarters percent guaranteed.
27. From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.
28. Step with care and great tact. And remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.
29. Unless someone like you care a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
30. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go…
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