24 Quotes From 'How I Met Your Mother' That Will Remind You Why Love Is Worth The Wait

“If you’re looking for the word that means caring about someone beyond all rationality and wanting them to have everything they want no matter how much it destroys you, it’s love. And when you love someone you don’t stop, ever. Even when people roll their eyes, and call you crazy. Even then. Especial…”

— Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“If you're not scared then you're not taking a chance. And if you're not taking a chance, then what the hell are you doing anyway?”

— Joe Kelly, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“If you keep giving up on people so quickly, you're gonna miss out on something great.”

— Robin Scherbatsky, amazon.com

“I think for the most part if you're really honest with yourself about what you want out of life, life gives it to you.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“Look, you can’t design your life like a building. It doesn’t work that way. You just have to live it… and it’ll design itself.”

— Lily Aldrin, amazon.com

“You can’t just skip ahead to where you think your life should be.”

— Lily Aldrin, amazon.com

“The more you fight it, the worse it’s gonna get. It’s like when your car slides on ice, you stir into the skid.”

— Tami Sagher, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“We spend so much effort trying to keep parts of our lives hidden, even from our closest friends, that in those rare times when we do open up, it's amazing how minor those secrets all end up being.”

— Chris Harris, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“That was the year I was left at the altar. The year I was beat up by a crazy bartender. The year I got fired. The year I got beat up by a goat, a girl goat at that. And dammit, if it wasn't the best year of my life.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“Whatever you do in this life, it’s not legendary unless your friends are there to see it.”

— Barney Stinson, amazon.com

“There are a lot of little reasons why the big things in our lives happen.”

— Joe Kelly, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“We’re going to get older whether we like it or not, so the only question is whether we get on with our lives, or desperately cling to the past.”

— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“Sometimes we search for one thing but discover another.”

— Barney Stinson, amazon.com

“We struggle so hard to hold on to these things that we know are gonna disappear eventually. And that’s really noble.”

— Lily Aldrin, amazon.com

“I know it's a mistake, but there are certain things in life where you know it's a mistake but you don't really know it's a mistake because the only way to really know it's a mistake is to make the mistake and look back and say 'yep, that was a mistake.' So really, the bigger mistake would be to not…”

— Lily Aldrin, amazon.com

“That’s life, you know, we never end up where you thought you wanted to be.”

— Marshall Eriksen, amazon.com

“You can't cling to the past. Because no matter how tightly you hold on, it's already gone.”

— Carter Bays, Craig Thomas, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“You may think your only choices are to swallow your anger or throw it in someone's face, but there's a third option: You can just let it go, and only when you do that is it really gone and you can move forward.”

— Jamie Rhonheimer, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“You wrote down all these things to say goodbye to, but so many of them are good things. Why not just say goodbye to the bad things? Say goodbye to all the times you felt lost, to all the times it was a ‘no’ instead of a ‘yes,’ to all the scrapes as and bruises, to all the heartache. Say goodbye to e…”

— Lily Aldrin, amazon.com

“Even if you know how something's going to end, that doesn't mean you can't enjoy the ride.”

— Craig Thomas, Carter Bays, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, amazon.com

“You will be shocked, kids, when you discover how easy it is in life to part ways with people forever. That's why, when you find someone you want to keep around, you do something about it.”

— Courtney Kang, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com

“The great moments of your life won't necessarily be the things you do, they'll also be the things that happen to you. Now, I'm not saying you can't take action to affect the outcome of your life, you have to take action, and you will. But never forget that on any day, you can step out the front door…”

— Stephen Lloyd, Ted Mosby, Josh Radnor, imdb.com