"You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm." —Unknown (popularly attributed)

"To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight—and never stop fighting." —E. E. Cummings

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself" —André Gide

"I am rooted, but I flow" —Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Tinkles had twins yesterday but she wasn’t very happy. She rejected one of them. Hopefully, she will accept it over the next few days.

"The cure for anything is salt water: sweat, tears, or the sea" —Isak Dinesen (Karen Blixen)

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks" —John Muir

My boy Blue

Tinkles

Rosie

"Boundaries are the distance at which I can love you and me simultaneously" —Prentis Hemphill

Bramble and her boy, Bracken.

"Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It will not lead you astray." —Jalaluddin Rumi (translated)