Quote of the Day: Dr. Seuss on Love

We scroll, we Slack, we optimize our sleep with apps that track every twitch, yet the most disruptive force still isn’t a notification. It’s the rare day when your attention stops splintering and lands, fully, on a person. That’s the pulse behind: “You know you're in love when you can't fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

On the surface, it’s a cute insomnia line. Underneath, it’s a verdict on what love does to perception. Dreams are safe; they obey. Reality is messy, dishes, streetlights, awkward pauses, the slightly wrong joke. And yet, when affection matures into love, the mess stops reading as a threat and starts reading as texture. You don’t need fantasy to rescue you from the ordinary because the ordinary has been re-lit from the inside.

This is why the sleeplessness matters. It isn’t anxiety or restlessness; it’s abundance. Your mind keeps replaying what actually happened, the voice, the nearness, the shared walk home, not to improve it, but to hold it. In that sense, love becomes a form of attention: the deliberate, almost reverent act of noticing. It’s also a quiet test. If your most extravagant imagined life can’t outshine the one you’re living, you’ve crossed from longing into belonging, and that requires trust.

Dr. Seuss built an empire on the idea that wonder can remake a room. His imaginative stories didn’t just entertain children; they trained generations to see possibility in the plainest corners of life.

If you’re reading this in October’s shortening days, apply it simply: choose one real moment to savor without upgrading it for the feed. Let reality be enough, and if sleep comes late, let gratitude, not worry, be the reason.