"One reason why my memory decays is that I have three cats, all so loving and insistent that they play cat's-cradle with every train of thought. They drove me distracted while I was having influenza, gazing at me with large eyes and saying: O Sylvia, you are so ill, you'll soon be dead. And who will feed us then? Feed us now!"

-- Sylvia Townsend Warner

#Memories Quotes #Cat Quotes #Eye Quotes

“What goes up, must come down... Mustn't it?”
“It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.”

Source : Amish Tripathi (2015). “The Shiva Trilogy: Omnibus”, p.661, Hachette UK
“It is said that the compensation for the effort courage, tenacity, and endurance displayed during the journey was not happiness. Nor glory. What God offered as a reward was only rest.”

Source : Ingrid Betancourt (2010). “Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle”, p.27, Hachette UK
“The greatest healing would be to wake up from what we are not.”
“If you can't beat 'em, join 'em... then beat 'em.”
“To each there comes in their lifetime a special moment when they are figuratively tapped on the shoulder and offered the chance to do a very special thing, unique to them and fitted to their talents. What a tragedy if that moment finds them unprepared or unqualified for that which could have been their finest hour.”
“Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.”

Source : Song: The Pointless, Yet Poignant, Crisis of a Co, Album: Mortal City
“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.”

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