Pachyderm Animals Quotes & Sayings

I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The divine therapy helps us integrate our animal nature with the new possibilities of rational consciousness. — Thomas Keating

[...]perhaps the secret of leading a life in which you would not always be worrying about things, or complaining about them, was to accept that there were people who just saw things differently from you and always would. Once you understood that, then you could accept the people themselves as they were and not try to change them. What was even more important, perhaps, was that you could love those people who looked at things so differently, because you realised that they were not trying to make life hard for you by being what they were, but were simply doing their best. Then, when you started to love them, love would do the work that it always did and it would begin to transform them and then they would end up seeing things in the same way that you did. — Alexander McCall Smith

What can you do? Time grabs you by the scruff of your neck and drags you forward. — Sloane Crosley

The more I see of dogs, the more I like children. — Winifred Holtby

Peacefully
The quiet stars came out, one after one;
The holy twilight fell upon the sea,
The summer day was done. — Celia Thaxter

It would be unthinkable to have a top-ten list of multiple narrative novels that doesn't include David Mitchell. 'Cloud Atlas' is the most obvious choice, but I have opted for Mitchell's slightly lesser known debut, 'Ghostwritten.' — Susan Barker

I couldn't possibly love you any more than I already do. Josephine, my heart resides with you forevermore." He remembers the quote on the back of my mother's watch. The same quote my father said to my mother. My heart squeezes painfully and I swear I could die of contentment. — J.L. Mac

Stained upon my hands, the blood of innocents brands my soul with such a crime forgiveness gapes appalled. — Michael J. Sullivan

Buddhism, it seemed, was a rational religion, whose truth-claims could withstand the test of reason. — Stephen Batchelor

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Slander is poison to the soul. — David O. McKay

Of course not," said Sturmhond. "Anything worth doing always starts as a bad idea. — Leigh Bardugo

Death makes sad stories of us all. — Tim Schafer

Choose to be the best version of you. — Truth Devour