22 Epic Quotes From How I Met Your Mother

1. “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. Especially then.” – Ted Mosby

2. “Shouldn’t we hold out for the person who doesn’t just tolerate our little quirks but actually kinda likes them?” – Ted Mosby

3. “If you keep on giving up on people so quickly, you’re gonna miss out on something great.” – Robin Scherbatsky

4. “If you’re really honest with yourself about what you want out of life, life gives it to you.” – Ted Mosby

5. “Love doesn’t make sense! You can’t logic your way into or out of it. Love is totally nonsensical. But we have to keep doing it or else we’re lost, and love is dead, and humanity should just pack it in. Because love is the best thing we do.” – Ted Mosby

6. “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

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

8. “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”. – Ted Mosby

9. “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.” – Ted Mosby

10. “That was the year I was left at the altar. The year I was beaten 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, it wasn’t the best year of my life.” – Ted Mosby

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

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

13. “Sometimes we search for one thing but discover another”. – Barney Stinson

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

15. “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 make the mistake, because the you’d go your whole life not knowing if something is a mistake or not”. – Lily Aldrin

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

17. “You can’t cling to the past. Because no matter how tightly you hold on, it’s already gone.” – Ted Mosby

18. “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.” – Ted Mosby

19. “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 ‘no’ instead of a ‘yes’, to all the scrapes as and bruises, to all the heartache. Say goodbye to everything you really want to do for the last time, but don’t go have the last Scotch toasting with Barney’s new life because that’s a good thing, and good things will always be here waiting for you.” – Lily Aldrin

20. “Even if you know how something’s going to end, that doesn’t mean you can’t enjoy the ride.” – Ted Mosby

21. “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.” – Ted Mosby

22. “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 and your whole life can change forever. You see, the universe has a plan, kids, and that plan is always in motion. A butterfly flaps its wings, and it starts to rain. It’s a scary thought. but it’s also kind of wonderful. All these little parts of the machine constantly working, making sure that you end up exactly where you’re supposed to be, exactly when you’re supposed to be there. The right place at the right time.” – Ted Mosby