"At Lackland Air Force Base, they make an effort to retrain military dogs that suffer from PTSD. It's a lengthy, long process. The treatment is much the same as it would be for people, but it's a difficult road back."

-- Robert Crais

#Dog Quotes #Military Quotes #Air Quotes

“The city is like a great house, and the house in its turn a small city.”

Source : "If a City Were Perfect, What Would It Look Like?" by Roderick Conway Morris, www.nytimes.com. May 8, 2012.
“I know already that I will return to this day whenever I want to. I can bid it alive. Preserve it. There is a still point where the present, the now, winds around itself, and nothing is tangled. The river is not where it begins or ends, but right in the middle point, anchored by what has happened and what is to arrive.”
“I was literally 3 years old when I started drawing. I did it all my life, through primary school, secondary school, all my life. I always, always wanted to be a designer. I read books on fashion from the age of twelve. I followed designer's careers. I knew Giorgio Armani was a window-dresser, Emanuel Ungaro was a tailor.”
“[However], the sufferer from depression has no option, and therefore finds himself, like a walking casualty of war, thrust into the most intolerable social and family situations. There he must ... present a face approximating the one associated with ordinary events and companionship. He must try to utter small talk and be responsive to questions, and knowingly nod, and frown and, God help him, even smile.”
“The value of our lives is not determined by what we do for ourselves. The value of our lives is determined by what we do for others.”
“Now my drug is writing or acting, being creative.”
“No more talk. I'm sick of people talking. Train.”
“What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.”

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