"The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings."

-- Maya Angelou

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“Don't cook that chicken - it still has feathers.”

Source : "A Gulag Mouse". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2010.
“A very wise dog woman once told me that dogs find owners, not the other way around. They pick you and they choose to stay with you. In that way, they are also giving you the end of their life. The deeper the bond, the harder it is to say good-bye. I know I'd rather have any amount of time with a dog I love and suffer the mourning than not have the time at all.”

Source : Julie Klam (2010). “You Had Me at Woof: How Dogs Taught Me the Secrets of Happiness”, p.67, Penguin
“When a man says he sees nothing in a book, he very often means that he does not see himself in it: which, if it is not a comedy or a satire, is likely enough.”
“With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book.”

Source : Ban Ki-moon's statement on the Awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, www.un.org. October 10, 2014.
“I have made bouquets of pleats, bouquets of flowers, bouquets of ruffles, bouquets of feathers. Often I design in mousseline, held tightly around the waist, and with something else going on all around.”
“He is an old bore. Even the grave yawns for him.”

Source : In Max Beerbohm Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1920) appendix 4
“Are you calling me a weirdo? Highest honor I can bestow.”
“There were certain elements of the healing process I could not capture. And even if I was right in the science, I could be wrong in the spirit.”

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