And by and by Christopher Robin came to an end of things, and he was silent, and he sat there, looking out over the world, just wishing it wouldn’t stop.

Winnie the Pooh

[editor’s note — forgive me all these quotes from Winnie the Pooh, but he expresses my feelings so succinctly that I feel I ought to share them with you all. For a Bear of Very Little Brain, he’s rather a wise old bear!]

“Just because an animal is large, it doesn’t mean he doesn’t want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo.”

Winnie the Pooh

“Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known.”

Winnie the Pooh

‘Supposing a tree fell down, Pooh, when we were underneath it?’ ‘Supposing it didn’t,’ said Pooh, after careful thought.
A.A. Milne