"Itâ€™s admirable, what you do, what she does, but to me animal-welfare people are a bit like Christians of a certain kind. Everyone is so cheerful and well-intentioned that after a while you itch to go off and do some raping and pillaging. Or to kick a cat."

-- J. M. Coetzee

#Christian Quotes #Cat Quotes #Animal Quotes

“When I look back on my knee-jerk reactions now, I realize I should have just taken a breath.”
“. . when the initial excitement of playing starts to evaporate, good habits are needed to sustain the learning process.”
“He was ordinary in a world that loved the extraordinary.”
“I can only build if I tear the walls down, even if it breaks me I won't let it make me frown, I'm falling but no matter how hard I hit the ground, I'll still smile”
“Nothing is so offensive to Christ as lukewarmness in religion.”
“The answers to how to live sustainably on our planet are all around us.”
“You have a spark. It is real. It is you. And right now, it is being activated. You cannot ignore the spark any longer.”
“Evolution isn't over. We are the experience that the universe is having.”

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