Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats

No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality. - Shirley Jackson

You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this. - Henry David Thoreau

The stars are not wanted now: put out every one; Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun; Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood. For nothing now can ever come to any good. - W.H. Auden

Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all. - David Lynch

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." 🎂 Happy Birthday to cat-lover Albert Schweitzer - born on this day in 1875.

"A cat is a cat. She has no race, creed or collar." 🎂 Happy Birthday to cat-lover Eartha Kitt - born on this day in 1927. #CatLovers #AnimalWelfare

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. - T.S. Eliot

If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. - J.R.R. Tolkien

It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. - Mark Twain, probably

Fire and Ice By Robert Frost Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice.

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. - George Bernard Shaw

"What greater gift than the love of a cat.” 🎂 Happy Birthday to cat-lover Charles Dickens - born on this day in 1812.

“I have lived with several Zen masters—all of them cats.” 🎂 Happy Birthday to cat-lover Eckhart Tolle - born on this day in 1948. #CatLovers #AnimalWelfare

I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you. - Friedrich Nietzsche

Man only likes to count his troubles; he doesn't calculate his happiness. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're goin', and hook up with them later. - Mitch Hedberg

I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity. - Edgar Allan Poe

When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love... - Marcus Aurelius

If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people. - Virginia Woolf