"I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion"

-- Dorothea Dix

#Compassion Quotes #Fund Quotes #Species Quotes

“. . . his biggest problem was his need for a problem.”
“Additional federal studies are under way to see if any contamination reaches taps or ground water used for drinking, but the program under which they are conducted, the toxic substances hydrology program of the geological survey, is slated to be eliminated under budget cuts proposed by the Bush administration, government officials said... estrogens and similar compounds are increasingly the focus of research by the Environmental Protection Agency and many scientists because of hints that they alter sexual characteristics in fish and other aquatic species.”
“The Process of becoming unstuck requires tremendous bravery, because basically we are completely changing our way of perceiving reality...”
“If you have these two things - the willingness to change, and the acceptance of everything as it comes, you will have all you need to work with.”
“I wonder if I cry whether my tears would be gray.”

Source : Susan Beth Pfeffer (2015). “The Life As We Knew It Collection”, p.183, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We hold ourselves back in ways both big and small, by lacking self-confidence, by not raising our hands, and by pulling back when we should be leaning in.”
“An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.”

Source : j.d. salinger (1961). “franny and zooey”
“Encourage your trillions of faithful little cells through joy, happiness and confidence. Thank them, talk to them, sing to them.”

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