They say a person needs just three thing... | Tom Bodett

Hope Love

They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.

- Tom Bodett

Quote of the Day

The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

- W. H. Auden

Other quotes by Tom Bodett

Kids in Alaska don't know they're growing up on the Last Frontier. It's just what they see on the license plates, and it's something tourists like to say a lot because they've never been around so many mountains and moose before.

- Tom Bodett

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be satisfied with any other place as long as you live. And there's a lot of truth to that.

- Tom Bodett

Did you ever notice that nobody you see on television looks like anyone you know?

- Tom Bodett

The difference between an optimist and a pessimist? An optimist laughs to forget but a pessimist forgets to laugh.

- Tom Bodett

Professor Al Drake encouraged me to just write the way I talk. I decided if that's what I needed to do, I didn't need to be in school to do it.

- Tom Bodett

Thirty-two is the age we turn into actual adults.

- Tom Bodett

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