Mattuck Animal Hospital Quotes & Sayings

I have migrated to another place. — Isabella Gardner

Gifts are very useful to con men. Gifts create a feeling of debt, an itchy anxiety that the recipient is eager to be rid of by repaying. So eager, in fact, that people will often overpay just to be relieved of it. A single spontaneously given cup of coffee can make a person feel obligated to sit through a lecture on a religion they don't care about. The gift of a tiny, wilted flower can make the recipient give to a charity they dislike. Gifts place such a heavy burden that even throwing away the gift doesn't remove the debt. Even if you hate coffee, even if you didn't want that flower, once you take it, you want to give something back. Most of all, you want to dismiss obligation. — Holly Black

Praying
It doesn't have to be
the blue iris, it could be
weeds in a vacant lot, or a few
small stones; just
pay attention, then patch
a few words together and don't try
to make them elaborate, this isn't
a contest but the doorway
into thanks, and a silence in which
another voice may speak. — Mary Oliver

I'm more materialistic about myself than I am about objects — Patti Smith

Well, I think they're going to learn that an awful lot of French people changed their minds. In 1940, the Third Republic had made a miserable mess of it. — Robert O. Paxton

From experience, I can tell you that if you go around trying to figure out what's fair in life or whether you deserve something or not, that's a rabbit hole that is hard to climb out of. — Taylor Jenkins Reid

Being a Sith was not just about feeling hatred and anger; it was finding a way to focus those feelings toward the attainment of mastery. — Sean Williams

I don't, as my mom would say, sweat the small stuff in our relationship. Because when I think of day-to-day irritations that you might have with the one you love, they're nothing compared to the bigger task at hand. — Michelle Obama

There is no real exellence in all this world which can be separated from right living. — David Starr Jordan

A religion without mystics is a philosophy. — Quintilian

Let me guess: you're secretly a wizard who was raised by muggles. — Michael Grant

You can exaggerate with puppets. You're not trying to look like real people. The way the Muppets are designed is really appealing. Puppets are best if they're exaggerated creatures. — Caroll Spinney

If youth did not matter so much to itself, it would never have the heart to go on. — Willa Cather