“There is no such thing as tough love. Love is kind, love is compassionate, love is tender.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“We can learn a lesson from the butterfly beginning it's life crawling along the ground, then spinning a cocoon, patiently waiting until the day it will fly.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Every day is a new day to hope, dream and try again.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Dear Little Children, don't ever give up on your dreams.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Gossip is a Sin just like all other sins that not only hurts those it is spoken about and slanders their reputation, but it also hurts the one who speaks it and the one who listens. Gossip is cruel & usually is a result of jealousy or bitterness. Either way, Stop the cycle of gossiping and start being loving instead.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Always do your best to be loving and kind to others.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“There can never be too much loving kindness or chesed.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Use your voice for good in this world, it may not seem like it's getting you anywhere, but in the end good wins.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Music transcends the boundaries of language.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“My heart longs for the day when there will be no more suffering, no more hatred or violence, only love and a child will be able to grow up in a world without ever having to know the pain and anguish of an empty belly.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Please leave my computer alone.. The only cookies I want to get are the ones I can eat.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Please leave my computer alone.. I only like cookies when I can eat them.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Smiles, kindness, hugs & love are all free to give, but priceless to recieve.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“With a hope and a prayer, you can get there.”
― Heather Wolf, quote from Kipnuk the Talking Dog
“Everybody wants to be on the mountaintop, but if you'll remember, mountaintops are rocky and cold. There is no growth on the top of a mountain. Sure, the view is great, but what's a view for? A view just gives us a glimpse of our next destination-our next target. But to hit that target, we must come off the mountain, go through the valley, and begin to climb the next slope. It is in the valley that we slog through the lush grass and rich soil, learning and becoming what enables us to summit life's next peak.”
― Andy Andrews, quote from The Noticer: Sometimes, All a Person Needs Is a Little Perspective
“The folly of humankind is that it believes it is impervious to decay”
― Tony DiTerlizzi, quote from The Search for WondLa
“One of the most difficult defilements of the spirit to deal with is the critical spirit. A critical spirit has its root in pride. Because of the 'plank' of pride in our own eye we are not capable of dealing with the 'speck' of need in someone else. We are often like the Pharisee who, completely unconscious of his own need prayed "God, I thank you that I am not like other men" (Luke 18:11). We are quick to see - and to speak of - the faults of others, but slow to see our own needs. How sweetly we relish the opportunity to speak critically of someone else - even when we are unsure of the facts. We forge that "a man who stirs up dissension among brothers" by criticizing one to another is one of the "six thing which the Lord hates" (Proverbs 6:16-19)”
― Jerry Bridges, quote from The Pursuit of Holiness
“He looks at me fondly. I know that the look doesn’t have love in it. Or even lust. I still wonder about love or sex or lust. I saw lust in his eyes when he looked at that girl on the sidewalk … I love him, anyway. I love him because he’s kind to me and he doesn’t want my body, doesn’t want to feel me or touch me, like all the others … and maybe after a while he might look at me with more than fondness, will kiss me sweetly, tenderly.”
― Robert Cormier, quote from Tenderness
“An English teacher at school once said to her, 'Alice, one thing I hope you never find out is that a broken heart hurts physically.' Nothing she has ever experienced has prepared her for the pain of this. Most of the time her heart feels as though it's waterlogged and her ribcage, her arms, her back, her temples, her legs all ache in a dull, persistent way: but at times like this the incredulity and the appalling irreversibility of what has happened cripple her with a pain so bad she often doesn't speak for days.”
― Maggie O'Farrell, quote from After You'd Gone
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