“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
― Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Places You'll Go!

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”
― Dr. Seuss, Happy Birthday to You!

“A person's a person, no matter how small.”
― Dr. Seuss, Horton Hears a Who!

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
Nothing is going to get better. It's not.”
― Dr. Seuss, The Lorax

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”
― Dr. Seuss

“Remember me and smile, for it's better to forget than to remember me and cry.”
― Dr. Seuss

“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.”
― Dr. Seuss

“To the world you may be one person; but to one person you may be the world.”
― Dr. Seuss

“Sometimes you will never know the value of something,until it becomes a memory.”
― Dr. Seuss

“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.”
― Dr. Seuss

Develop your legitimate strangeness.
— Rene Char

Trust firmly in your luck, cling to your happiness, and dare to take risks.
— Rene Char

Each act is virgin, even the repeated ones.
— Rene Char

Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them back in the form of one entirely satisfying presence.
— Rene Char

To be a poet is to have an appetite for a certain anxiety which, when tasted among the swirling sum of things existent or forfeit, causes, as the taste dies, joy.
— Rene Char

“A few beings are neither in society nor in a state of dreaming. They belong to an isolated fate, to an unknown hope. Their open acts seem anterior to time’s first inculpation and to the skies’ unconcern. It occurs to no one to employ them. The future melts before their gaze. They are the noblest and the most disquieting.”
― René Char, Selected Poems

“There is only the one like me, the companion man or woman, who can wake me from my torpor, set off the poetry, hurl me against the limits of the old desert for me to triumph over it. No other. Neither sky nor privileged earth, now things which set you to trembling.

Torch, I only waltz with that one.”
― René Char, Selected Poems

"The essential is constantly threatened by the insignificant."
― René Char

"I ask myself this question so many times, why
are we so few, so briefly, with those who give
us well-being and relaxation, rest for the soul
and pleasure for the spirit?"
― René Char

"What are you suffering from? Of the unreal
intact in the devastated real."
― René Char

"We can never attain the impossible yet it
serves us as a lantern."
― René Char