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“Live in such a way as, when you come to die, you will wish to have lived. [Ger., Lebe, wie Du, wenn du stirbst, Wunschen wirst, gelebt zu haben.]”

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Christian Furchtegott Gellert

Christian Furchtegott Gellert was a German poet born on July 4, 1715, and died on December 13, 1769. His poetry, deeply influenced by the Enlightenment, is known for its emotional sincerity and moral instruction. more

“For the first time in six or seven thousand years, many people of goodwill find themselves confused about art. They want to enjoy it because enjoying art is something they expect of themselves as civilized persons, but they're unsure how to do so. They aren't even sure which of the visible objects are art and which are furniture, clothes, hors d'oeuvres, or construction rubble, and whether a pile of dead and decomposing rats is deliberate art or just another pile of decomposing rats.”

Source: Wasn't the Grass Greener?: A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories

“However long you have a cat and however plainly he lays his life open before you, there is always something hidden, some name he goes by in a place you never heard of.”

Long Names Heard Cat Lays

Book:Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives

Source: Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives

“Very few people have no opinions about cats.”

People Opinion Cat

Book:Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives

Source: Secrets of the Cat: Its Lore, Legend, and Lives

“Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.”

“parents needn't bother driving small children around to see the purple mountains' majesties; the children will go right on duking it out in the back seat and whining for food as if you were showing them Cincinnati. No one under twenty really wants to look at scenery.”

Ifs Want Looks Children Parent Mountain Twenties Driving Bother Seats Purple Majesty Scenery Small Child Whining

Author:Barbara Holland

“We don't get enough pampering. If we were once the only child of an adoring mother, we developed a taste for it; if not, we developed a thirst for it.”

Ifs Children Enough Mother Comfort Taste Thirst Only Child Pampering

Author:Barbara Holland

“Almost any dog thinks almost any human is the Great Spirit, the Primal Creator, and the Universal Force Behind the Sun and Tides. What human can resist?”

Thinking Humans Spirit Force Behinds Sun Dog Universal Creator Tides Primal Great Spirit

Author:Barbara Holland

“For some of us, the soul is resident in the sole, and yearns ceaselessly for light and air and self-expression. Our feet are our very selves. The touch of floor or carpet, grass or mud or asphalt, speaks to us loud and clear from the foot, that scorned and lowly organ as dear to us as our eyes and ears.”

Soul Self Light Eye Speak Clear Air Feet Expression Ears Dear Loud Grass Organs Sole Mud Carpet Self Expression Residents Scorned Asphalt

Author:Barbara Holland

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