“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
“If I was set an essay on Friday, I’d spend three hours on Saturday morning in the library. Was that normal?
I didn’t know.
What I did know was that I felt less prone to depression and more normal walking through Venice or staring out over the lake in Zurich. At home I wrestled continually with my moods. The black thing inside me gnawed like a rat at my self-esteem and self-confidence. I felt there was a happy person inside me too, who wanted to enjoy life, to be normal, but my feelings of self-loathing and the deep distrust I had towards my father wouldn’t allow that sunny person to come out.
When the black thing had an iron grip on me, I couldn’t even look at my father: Did you do bad things to me when I was little?
Like a line from a song stuck in your brain, the words ran through my head and never once came out of my mouth. Not that I needed to say what was in my mind. I was sure Father could read my thoughts in my moods, in the blank, dead stare of my eyes.
It was hardly surprising that there was always an atmosphere of strain and awkwardness in the house, and the blame was always mine: Alice and her moods, Alice and her anorexia; Alice and her low self-esteem; Alice and her inescapable feelings of loss and emptiness.”
― quote from Today I'm Alice: Nine Personalities, One Tortured Mind
“Pleasure has turned into habit much more quickly than I should have ever thought possible.”
― Théophile Gautier, quote from Mademoiselle de Maupin
“You see, one loves the sunset when one is so sad.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, quote from Der kleine Prinz
“The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.”
― Donald A. Norman, quote from Design of Everyday Things: Revised and Expanded Edition (Revised)
“Growing up, I was a big fan of the Indiana Jones movies. I watched them again recently and found them to be misleading. Aspiring archeologists across the world probably show up to their first day of work with their weather-worn fedoras and their whips and they’re like, “Where’s the cavern of jewels?” And their boss is like, “Actually, today we’re gonna start off by dusting thousands of miles of nothing.”
― quote from Sleepwalk With Me and Other Painfully True Stories
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