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I have felt cats rubbing their faces against mine and touching my cheek with claws carefully sheathed. These things, to me, are expressions of love. James Herriot
Love Me Cats Pet Carefully Mine Faces Touching Claws Cheek Felt Against Expressions Things Rubbing
Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty. John Ruskin
Strength Patience Beauty Than Endurance
That's the fun of going to a high school reunion: it's seeing the people who you were close to all those years ago, and re-exploring the relationships of the past. Jon Hurwitz
You People School Past Relationships Those High Seeing High School Reunion Were Years Years Ago Close Going Who Fun
To doubt God is to doubt one's own conscience, and in consequence, it would be to doubt everything; and then what is life for? Jose Rizal
Life God Own Doubt Everything Would Would-Be Then Conscience Consequence
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures. Joseph Addison
Patience Our See Proper Shall Shape Soon Disappointments Blessings Real Losses Often Them Us Pains Figures Appear Let Us
Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship. Laura Schlessinger
Great Relationship Parenting Second Chance Our Children Second Chance
Achievers have an enabling attitude, realism, and a conviction that they themselves were the laboratory of innovation. Their ability to change themselves is central to their success. They have learned to conserve their energy by minimizing the time spent in regret or complaint. Every event is a lesson to them, every person a teacher. Marilyn Ferguson
Success Attitude Teacher Time Change Innovation Regret Energy Conviction Lesson Every Complaint Conserve Spent Ability Learned Enabling Were Laboratory Person Achievers Central Realism Them Themselves Event
Your own business growth and success depends on many things, and along that growing path, you are going to have to concede certain responsibilities and activities - whether for your accounting, your production, or day-to-day management. Michael Gerber
Success You Business Management Path Own Responsibilities Day-To-Day Concede Along Accounting Going Depends Whether Certain Production Your Many Growing Activities Growth Things
Looking back over the years, I realize the Bible isn't magic, but it is corrective; it isn't an answer book, it is a living book; it isn't a fix-it book, it is relationship book. When I confront God's word, I am confronted; when I read God's word, it reads me; when I seek God's presence, He seeks me. Mike Yaconelli
God Me Relationship Bible Book Word Looking Looking Back Living Back Corrective Seek Magic Seeks He Over Read Answer Reads Am Years Confront Confronted Realize Presence
The whole notion of pain, and how every individual experiences pain, is up for debate. We don't know how another person experiences pain - physical pain or psychic pain. Some of these clinics where assisted suicide or euthanasia is practiced, they call it 'weariness of life.' Miriam Toews
Life Debate Psychic Pain Every Suicide Weariness Physical Some Physical Pain Individual Know Call Another Practiced How Clinics Up Person Where Experiences Notion Whole Euthanasia Assisted
Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain. Niccolo Machiavelli
Greedy Fickle Say General Hypocritical May Gain Mankind
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense; benefits ought to be handed ought drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more. Niccolo Machiavelli
Benefits Drop Ought Once Out Give More Dealt Handed Offense May Should Less
To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Lie Sometimes Wind Sail Anchor Must Drift Reach Against Port
Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Truth Day You Truth Is Will Tough Kick All Day About Touch Bubble Football Like May Break Full Nay Evening Round
Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Friendship You Become Relation On The Contrary Say Tact More Disagreeable Come Courtesy Contrary Person Flatter Your Nearer Things Necessary
Flowers are happy things. P. G. Wodehouse
Gardening Happy Happy Things Things Flowers
If you so choose, even the unexpected setbacks can bring new and positive possibilities. If you so choose, you can find value and fulfillment in every circumstance. Ralph Marston
Positive You Value Every Circumstance Possibilities Find New Unexpected Fulfillment Choose Even Bring Setbacks
Your goals, minus your doubts, equal your reality. Ralph Marston
Reality Goals Brainy Minus Equal Your Doubts
We are an impossibility in an impossible universe. Ray Bradbury
Impossible Universe Impossibility
If one can only see things according to one's own belief system, one is destined to become virtually deaf, dumb, and blind. Robert Anton Wilson
Become Own Virtually Destined System See Only Blind Deaf Dumb According Belief Things
I love, but I am not entirely sure how to be loved: how to be seen and known for the utterly flawed woman I am. It demands surrender. It demands acknowledging that I am not perfect, but perhaps I deserve affection anyway. Roxane Gay
Love Surrender Woman Not Perfect Seen Affection Entirely Perfect Demands Perhaps Known Sure How Am Loved Anyway Acknowledging Flawed Deserve Utterly
The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum. Thomas Paine
World Complexion Asylum Religious Absence Due Modern Modern World Whole Jerusalem Lunatic
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. Voltaire
Possess Those Triumph True Along Enables Get Us Reason Who
I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth. Ursula K. Le Guin
Truth Atheist Liar I Am Too Everything Say Telling Telling The Truth Distrust About Talk Am Gods Artist Therefore
It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end. Ursula K. Le Guin
Good Journey Matters Toward End In The End
Going to a restaurant is one of my keenest pleasures. Meeting someplace with old and new friends, ordering wine, eating food, surrounded by strangers, I think is the core of what it means to live a civilised life. Adam Gopnik
Life Food Old Wine Strangers Live Think Meeting Pleasures Restaurant Eating Someplace Civilised New New Friends Surrounded Friends Going Ordering Means Keenest Core
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