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Perhaps one reason we are fascinated by cats is because such a small animal can contain so much independence, dignity, and freedom of spirit. Unlike the dog, the cat's personality is never bet on a human's. He demands acceptance on his own terms. Lloyd Alexander
Freedom Dignity Animal Acceptance Cats Dog Personality Independence Own Unlike Spirit Bet Small Cat Never He Contain Demands Perhaps Terms Because His Human Much Reason Fascinated
Great thoughts come from the heart. Luc de Clapiers
Love Great Thoughts Heart Come
The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself. Mark Caine
Motivational Success You Yourself First Find Step Taken Environment Toward First Step Refuse Which Success Is Captive
Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love. Mason Cooley
Love Truth Moving On About Only Know
Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions. Niccolo Machiavelli
Needs Obey Simple Will Men Immediate Never His Deceiver Lack Victims Much Inclined
True teachers use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create bridges of their own. Nikos Kazantzakis
Own Collapse Cross Crossing Having Students True Invite Over Joyfully Encouraging Which Them Themselves Then Create Use Teachers Bridges
Alcohol is like love. The first kiss is magic, the second is intimate, the third is routine. After that you take the girl's clothes off. Raymond Chandler
Love You Girl Kiss First Clothes Alcohol Intimate Magic Take Like First Kiss Off After Routine Second Third
An army of principles can penetrate where an army of soldiers cannot. Thomas Paine
Peace Army Soldiers Penetrate Principles Where Cannot
If you create an act, you create a habit. If you create a habit, you create a character. If you create a character, you create a destiny. Andre Maurois
Character You Destiny Habit Create Act
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads, armed with nothing but their own vision. Ayn Rand
Vision Men First Own Nothing Down Took Throughout Roads Steps New Armed Were Centuries Who
Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm. Charles Caleb Colton
Great Confusion Darkest Furnace Minds Purest Calamity Hottest Greatest Been Times Storm Ore Produced Productive Brightest
Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? Douglas Adams
Beautiful Gardening Garden Believe Too Enough See Having Bottom Fairies Without
Do not sit down in Satan's easy chair of do-little, but arise and aim at the elevated standard which it is your privilege to attain. Ellen G. White
Satan Sit Down Aim Easy Attain Arise Privilege Which Your Standard Chair Elevated
The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer ocean on a beach. Henry Beston
Great Nature Rain Wind Three Ocean Outer Beach Sound Sounds Wood Elemental
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? J. B. Priestley
You World Wake Up First Fall Kind Magical Only Another Bed Enchantment Go Wake Up Snow Quite Where Different Then Event Found
Listening is such a simple act. It requires us to be present, and that takes practice, but we don't have to do anything else. We don't have to advise, or coach, or sound wise. We just have to be willing to sit there and listen. Margaret J. Wheatley
Wise Simple Listening Practice Sit Else Willing Simple Act Takes Advise Sound Listen Just Anything Anything Else Us Coach Act Requires Present
The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage. Mark Russell
Best Space Lost Airline Rings Composed Entirely Like Scientific Scientific Theory Theory Luggage Saturn
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God. Monica Johnson
God Disappointment Regret Cause Hatred Feeling Before Repentance Admission Merely Sin Wishes Remorse Sorrow Without However Were Situated Proactive Difference Different Turning Act Even Away Things
It's never too late - in fiction or in life - to revise. Nancy Thayer
Life Too Late Never Too Late Too Late Never Revise Fiction
Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared. Niccolo Machiavelli
You Man Men Ought Destroyed Unable Feared Take Retaliate Merely Vengeance Offend Greatly Done Cannot Either Them Injure Injury Utterly
Don't think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity. It's self-conscious, and anything self-conscious is lousy. You can't try to do things. You simply must do things. Ray Bradbury
You Creativity Enemy Try Think Thinking Must Simply Self-Conscious Lousy Anything Things
We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Travel World Our Wilderness Find Friend Travelers Travels Honest
It is not so much for its beauty that the forest makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanation from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit. Robert Louis Stevenson
Nature Quality Weary Old Men Beauty Trees Changes Air Claim Spirit Something Makes Forest Hearts Wonderfully Subtle Much
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. Robert Louis Stevenson
Great Travel Affair Go Sake Move Anywhere
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. Rudyard Kipling
First Country Smell Understanding Foreign Foreign Country Condition
To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job. Simone de Beauvoir
Art Relationship Job Husband Catch Him Hold
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