WIST Quotations

Watterson, Bill -- Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-02)

Dave — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 21:36:41 +0000

CALVIN: I’ve decided to stop caring about things. If you care, you just get disappointed all the time. If you don’t care, nothing matters, so you’re never upset. From now on, my rallying cry is, “So what?!”

HOBBES: That’s a tough cry to rally around.

CALVIN: So what?!

Bill Watterson (b. 1958) American cartoonist
Calvin and Hobbes (1993-01-02)
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Teresa of Avila -- “Maxims for Her Nuns”

Dave — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 13:54:54 +0000

Remember that you have only one soul; that you have only one death to die; that you have only one life, which is short and has to be lived by you alone; and there is only one Glory, which is eternal. If you do this, there will be many things about which you care nothing.

Teresa of Ávila (1515-1582) Spanish mystic, poet, philosopher, saint
“Maxims for Her Nuns”

In Complete Works St. Teresa of Avila, Vol. 3 (1963) [ed. Peers]

Roosevelt, Eleanor -- Column (1944-11-08), “My Day”

Dave — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 02:54:28 +0000

In political life I have never felt that anything really mattered but the satisfaction of knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed, and had done the very best you could.

Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) First Lady of the US (1933–1945), politician, diplomat, activist
Column (1944-11-08), “My Day”
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