"I was born in love with all elephants. Not for a reason that I know. Not because of any of their individual qualities â€” wisdom, kindness, power, grace, patience, loyalty â€” but for what they are altogether. For their entire elephantness."

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Source : Pat Derby, Peter S. Beagle (1976). “The lady and her tiger”, Dutton Books

Pat Derby

#Loyalty Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Elephants Quotes

“I like to take a puff or two before going on the air. I still get stage fright when I have to perform. A little grass gets rid of the problem.”
“I don't like my physique.Â Who does? I was a skinny guy growing up, and I still feel like that same skinny kid.”
“A life to hold, or to see slip through uncaring and inattentive hands, but always a life. And given one, we wish for two, or three, or more, so easily forgetting the one we had was spent unwisely”

Source : R.J. Ellory (2013). “The R. J. Ellory Collection”, p.1441, Hachette UK
“A goal is a dream with a deadline.”

Source : Dr. Robert C. Worstell, Dorothea Brande, Claude M. Bristol, Earl Nightingale, Napoleon Hill (2017). “Mindset StackingTM Inspirational Journal VolumeSS01”, Lulu.com
“Only those who must bear the consequences of a decision have the right to make it.”

Source : Starhawk (2012). “Dreaming the Dark”, p.63, Beacon Press
“I scourge both flesh and spirit because I know that I have offended in both flesh and spirit.”

Source : Peter Damian (2013). “Spiritual Precepts”, p.45, Lulu Press, Inc
“The fact that you can forge a twenty dollar bill doesn't prove that all twenty dollar bills are forgeries.”
“You don't need to go all deep and meaningful and start talking about Daddies. It's yes or no answer.”

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