Quote collection
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"Loss leaves us empty - but learn not to close your heart and mind in grief. Allow life to replenish you. When sorrow comes it seems impossible - but new joys wait to fill the void."
"Bears need people. People need bears."
"Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good."
"We expect too much at Christmas. It's got to be magical. It's got to go right. Feasting. Fun. The perfect present. All that anticipation. Take it easy. Love's the thing. The rest is tinsel."
"A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives."
"The baby rises to its feet, takes a step, is overcome with triumph and joy - and falls flat on its face. It is a pattern for all that is to come! But learn from the bewildered baby. Lurch to your feet again. You'll make the sofa in the end."
"It's hard to be responsible, adult and sensible all the time. How good it is to have a sister whose heart is as young as your own."
"Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins."
"Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood."
"Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five."
"The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you."
"For the sake of the sons - and even for the son's future wives - a woman must keep a part of her mind and heart entirely for herself. Every family is better off with a wife and mother who can astonish and occasionally dewilder."
"Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything."
"From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength."
"Horses lend us the wings we lack."
"A younger sister is someone to use as a guinea-pig in trying sledges and experimental go-carts. Someone to send on messages to Mum. But someone who needs you - who comes to you with bumped heads, grazed knees, tales of persecution. Someone who trusts you to defend her. Someone who thinks you know the answers to almost everything."
"A teddy bear is your childhood wrapped up in faded yellow fur, and as such, he commands affection long after he is out grown."
"A cat is a regency gentleman--elegant of pose, exquisite of manner, with spotless linen and an enthusiasm for bare knuckle fights, rampaging love affairs, duels by moonlight and the singing of glees. He expects immaculate service from his domestic staff, and possesses a range of invective that would make a navy blanch."
"If there is a heaven, it's certain our animals are to be there. Their lives become so interwoven with our own, it would take more than an archangel to detangle them."
"Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door."