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I am always on the lookout for quotes. Some turn out good, some bad. Then, there are the ones which strike the right chord almost immediately. This page concentrates on these very points to ponder - quotes made by Mahatma Gandhi, Nelson Mandela, Barack Obama and many more famous personalities. Additionally, you will find a new inspirational/motivational picture each day to boost your confidence and to make you feel you a little bit lighter.

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Furry Logic: A Guide to Life's Little Challenges

The Perfect Book To Gift Your Loved Ones

Furry Logic: A Guide to Life's Little Challenges

Furry Logic: A Guide to Life's Little Challenges

by: Jane Seabrook

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I saw this book at a school library conference and bought several copies to give as gifts. The animals have perfect facial expressions and body language to represent what we go through and feel everyday. I bought the book for anniversary presents, but it also suits certain people I know. It is perfect for relationships, for example, it says, "Never go to bed mad- stay up and fight." - A customer

New Zealand artist Jane Seabrook has succeeded in creating one of the most charming and amusing gift books ever! Using captivating watercolor animal portraits to illustrate aphorisms, many of them with new twists, she puts life into perspective on many levels--and does so with panache. A precariously balanced coqui frog says, "I try to take one day at a time...but sometimes several days attack me at once." - Mary

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Jim Morrison

"When you make your peace with authority, you become authority."



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Nelson Mandela

" If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."



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Anna Sewell

"My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt."



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Tony Robbins

"My definition of success is to live your life in a way that causes you to feel a ton of pleasure and very little pain - and because of your lifestyle, have the people around you feel a lot more pleasure than they do pain."



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Gertrude Stein

"If you are too careful, you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something."


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Josh Billings

"One of the greatest victories you can gain over someone is to beat him at politeness."


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Jimmy Johnson, quoted by Jarret Bell in USA Today

"Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat him as he could be, and he will become what he should be."


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Louis L'Amour

"Every cynic is a sentimentalist under the skin."


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James Freedman, president of Dartmouth College

"Everywhere we look, the world urges us to turn on the radio or TV, to make a phone call, to see a movie. Many of us, I fear, worry that if left alone with our thoughts and feelings, we may discover that we do not make very good company for ourselves"


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George Bernard Shaw

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."


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Barack Obama

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."



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Juliet Alicia Jarvis

"Never fear shadows. They simply mean there's a light shining somewhere nearby"


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Jean Paul Richter

"For sleep, riches and health to be truly enjoyed, they must be interrupted."


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Doug Engelbart

"The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate."


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Neil Armstrong

"I believe that every human has a finite number of heartbeats. I don't intend to waste any of mine running around doing exercises. "


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Henry Ward Beecher

"In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich. "


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Bernard Berenson

"I wish I could stand on a busy street corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. "


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John Fisher

"In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely."


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Jess Lair

"Praise is like sunlight to human spirit: we cannot flower and grow without it."


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Deepak Chopra

"Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day."


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Crawford Greenewalt

"Behind every advance of the human race is a germ of creation growing in the mind of some lone individual, an individual whose dreams waken him in the night while others contentedly sleep."


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Lao-Tze

"He who gains victory over other men is strong, but he who gains a victory over himself is all-powerful"


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Oprah Winfrey

"Be thankful for what you have - you'll end up having more."


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Jennifer Aniston

"There are no regrets in life, just lessons."


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Ray Romano

"Everyone should have kids. They are the greatest joy in the world. But they are also terrorists. You'll realize this as soon as they are born and they start using sleep deprivation to break you."



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Bill Gates

"Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."



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Margery Facklam

"We give dogs time we can spare, space we can spare, and love we can spare. In return, dogs give us their all. It's the best deal man has ever made."



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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. A quote by Oscar Wilde available on a variety of t-shirts and gift items.

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Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. Henry David Thoreau.

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