"Anyone who's lived with companion cats or dogs knows that they are unique individuals with their own personalities. I think animals' secret to getting along is that they are not burdened by an ego."

-- Jonathan Balcombe

#Dog Quotes #Cat Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“Perhaps that is part of the animals' role among us, to awaken humility, to turn our minds back to the mystery of things, and open our hearts to that most impractical of hopes in which all creation speaks as one.”

Source : Matthew Scully (2003). “Dominion: The Power of Man, the Suffering of Animals, and the Call to Mercy”, p.442, Macmillan
“They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.”
“I watch her as she leaves. Everything about her is fluid as a river. Her messy hair, her xylophone voice, the strokes of her paintbrush. Even her camouflage army jacket hangs loose, flowing like ribbons.”

Source : Lisa Ann Sandell (2011). “A Map of the Known World”, p.217, Scholastic Inc.
“Since the nature of people is bad, to become corrected they must be taught by teachers and to be orderly they must acquire ritual and moral principles.”
“Within a capitalist consumer society, the cult of personality has the power to subsume ideas, to make the person, the personality into the product and not the work itself.”
“Keynes, far from being a wholehearted lover of freedom, viewed with some sympathy the fascist and Communist â€˜experimentsâ€™ of the 1930s.”
“I never thought to ever ask for money. I was so stupid.”
“A friend suggested that I get a job at a children's book store so I could meet kids and read books, and that turned out to be the single best bit of advice I've ever gotten.”

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