"Dogs change lives. Half Buddha, half Bozo, they keep us tethered to the earth, and teach us to fly. Our dogs are our sanity keepers."

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Source : Megan McMorris, Pam Houston (2006). “Woman's Best Friend: Women Writers on the Dogs in Their Lives”, p.8, Seal Press

Pam Houston

#Dog Quotes #Life Changing Quotes #Half Quotes

“One of us had loved the other more perfectly, had watched the other more closely, and one of us listened and the other hadnâ€™t, and one of us held on to the ambition of the one idea far longer than was reasonable, whereas the other, passing a garbage can one night, had casually thrown it away.”

Source : Nicole Krauss (2011). “Great House: A Novel”, p.39, W. W. Norton & Company
“The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity.”
“When you express gratitude everyday, you give yourself the gift of experiencing the joy of gratitude everyday. Give yourself that gift today!”
“Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it towards others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will be in our troubled world.”

Source : Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”
“The things that make us alike are stronger and finer than the things that make us different.”

Source : "The excellent becomes the permanent".
“The towers are gone now, reduced to bloody rubble, along with all hopes for Peace in Our Time, in the United States or any other country. Make no mistake about it: We are At War now & with somebody & and we will stay At War with that mysterious Enemy for the rest of our lives.”
“I am an optimist, unrepentant and militant. After all, in order not to be a fool an optimist must know how sad a place the world can be. It is only the pessimist who finds this out anew every day.”
“In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'”

Source : Bill Buford (2013). “Heat: An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-maker and Apprentice to a Butcher in Tuscany”, p.100, Random House

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