You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
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Today you are you! That is truer than true!
Interpretation
Embrace your individuality and authenticity.
This quote emphasizes the importance of being true to oneself and celebrating one's unique identity. Dr. Seuss reminds us that there is no one else quite like us, and our individuality is a powerful truth that should be acknowledged and cherished.
In practice
During a graduation speech to inspire students to embrace their true selves.
You'll be on your way up! You'll be seeing great sights! You'll join the high fliers who soar to high heights.
Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
How true, how true" said the Sour Kangaroo, "And from now on, you know what I'm gonna do? I'm going to protect them with you!" And the Young Kangaroo in her pouch said "Me too!
If you never did you should. These things are fun and fun is good.
When you think things are bad, when you feel sour and blue, when you start to get mad... you should do what I do! Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky! Some people are much more... oh, ever so much more... oh, muchly much-much more unlucky than you!
I have heard there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some come from behind. But I've bought a big bat. I'm all ready you see. Now my troubles are going to have troubles with me!
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
There's a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over - and to let go. It means leaving what's over without denying its validity or its past importance in our lives.
Whatever happens around you, don't take it personally... Nothing other people do is because of you. It is because of themselves.
My prayer became 'May I find peace... May I love this life no matter what.' I was seeking an inner refuge, an experience of presence and wholeness that could carry me through whatever losses might come.
It took me forty years of dealing with buddhism to finally realize that actually Buddha's discovery was happiness and bliss.
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