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"Today, you are you"
Thoughts For The Day.. from Theodor Geisel,
.... Much Better Known as: Dr. Seuss
"Today, you are you! That is truer than true!
There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
"Be who you are, and say what you feel,
Because those who mind don't matter,
And those who matter don't mind"
"Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky"
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
“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!”
“Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance
To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy
You ought to be shouting how lucky am I”
“You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot,
for The places and people you're lucky you're not!”
“Oh, the jobs people work at!
Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch
there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher bee watcher, his job is to watch.
Is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee,
a bee that is watched will work harder you see.
So he watched and he watched, but in spite of his watch
that bee didn't work any harder not mawtch.
So then somebody said, "Our old bee-watching man
just isn't bee watching as hard as he can,
he ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher!
The thing that we need is a bee-watcher-watcher!".
Well, the bee-watcher-watcher watched the bee-watcher.
He didn't watch well so another Hawtch-Hawtcher
had to come in as a watch-watcher-watcher!
And now all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch
are watching on watch watcher watchering watch,
watch watching the watcher who's watching that bee.
You're not a Hawtch-Watcher you're lucky you see!”
“Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard.
He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard
and its quick growing grass,
and it grows as he mows it
the faster he mows it the faster he grows it.
And all that his stingy old uncle will pay
for his shoving mower around the hay
is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day.
And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!”
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!”
From Theodor Geisel better known as Dr.Seuss
.... Much Better Known as: Dr. Seuss
"Today, you are you! That is truer than true!
There is no one alive who is you-er than you!
"Be who you are, and say what you feel,
Because those who mind don't matter,
And those who matter don't mind"
"Just tell yourself, Duckie, you're really quite lucky"
Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are?
“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!”
“Be grateful you’re not in the forest in France
Where the average young person just hasn’t a chance
To escape from the perilous pants eating plants
But your pants are safe, you’re a fortunate guy
You ought to be shouting how lucky am I”
“You ought to be thankful a hole heaping lot,
for The places and people you're lucky you're not!”
“Oh, the jobs people work at!
Out west near Hawtch-Hawtch
there's a Hawtch-Hawtcher bee watcher, his job is to watch.
Is to keep both his eyes on the lazy town bee,
a bee that is watched will work harder you see.
So he watched and he watched, but in spite of his watch
that bee didn't work any harder not mawtch.
So then somebody said, "Our old bee-watching man
just isn't bee watching as hard as he can,
he ought to be watched by another Hawtch-Hawtcher!
The thing that we need is a bee-watcher-watcher!".
Well, the bee-watcher-watcher watched the bee-watcher.
He didn't watch well so another Hawtch-Hawtcher
had to come in as a watch-watcher-watcher!
And now all the Hawtchers who live in Hawtch-Hawtch
are watching on watch watcher watchering watch,
watch watching the watcher who's watching that bee.
You're not a Hawtch-Watcher you're lucky you see!”
“Think they work you too hard? Think of poor Ali Sard.
He has to mow grass in his uncle's backyard
and its quick growing grass,
and it grows as he mows it
the faster he mows it the faster he grows it.
And all that his stingy old uncle will pay
for his shoving mower around the hay
is piffulous pay of two dooklas a day.
And Ali can't live on such piffulous pay!”
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!”
From Theodor Geisel better known as Dr.Seuss
