Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

1904–1991 · American children's author, poet & cartoonist

Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904–1991), writing as Dr. Seuss, created The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! and Oh, the Places You’ll Go! His warm, rhyming, aphoristic voice makes him one of the internet’s biggest magnets for feel-good sayings he never wrote. This one attached itself to him only after a 1998 graduation speech was reported as paraphrasing Oh, the Places You’ll Go! — a book that does not contain it.

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2 quotes we’ve traced to Dr. Seuss (Theodor Seuss Geisel)

“Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened”

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“You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams”

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