#cat

Every time you look up at the stars, it’s like opening a door. You could be anyone, anywhere. You could be yourself at any moment in your life. You open that door and you realize you’re the same person under the same stars. Camping out in the backyard with your best friend, eleven years old. Sixteen, driving alone, stopping at the edge of the city, looking up at the same stars. Walking a wooded path, kissing in the moonlight, look up and you’re eleven again. Chasing cats in a tiny town, you’re eleven again, you’re sixteen again. You’re in a rowboat. You’re staring out the back of a car. Out here where the world begins and ends, it’s like nothing ever stops happening. ↗

— Bryan Lee O'Malley

#comic #eleven #graphic-novel #lost-at-sea #sixteen

Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. ↗

— Pete Seeger

#experience #fine #fine print #get #print

I’m not running away from my responsibilities. I’m running to them. There’s nothing negative about running away to save my life. ↗

— Joseph Heller

#life

There are more ways of skinning a cat than rubbing its fur the wrong way. ↗

— J. Carter Brown

#fur #more #rubbing #skinning #than

I make it a policy not to second-guess my instincts. Life's more fun that way. ~Train Heartnet ↗

— Kentaro Yabuki

#kentaro-yabuki #train-heartnet #life

I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye. ↗

— Demi Lovato

#demi-lovato #love #sad #sing #love

If I knew everything, life would be lonely, as everyone else would want to explore the world, and I’d be content with a cat on my lap sitting in the dark. 
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— Jarod Kintz

#content #dark #explore #knowledge #lonely

[I]n a place with absolutely no private or personal life, with the incessant worship of a mediocre career-sadist as the only culture, where all citizens are the permanent property of the state, the highest form of pointlessness has been achieved. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#deification #kim-jong-il #north-korea #personal-life #privacy

Now the best relation to our spiritual home is to be near enough to love it. But the next best is to be far enough away not to hate it. It is the contention of these pages that while the best judge of Christianity is a Christian, the next best judge would be something more like a Confucian. The worst judge of all is the man now most ready with his judgements; the ill-educated Christian turning gradually into the ill-tempered agnostic, entangled in the end of a feud of which he never understood the beginning, blighted with a sort of hereditary boredom with he knows not what, and already weary of hearing what he has never heard. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#bias #education

There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises ↗

— Carl Sagan

#learning #science #education