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Inspirational Sayings
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Stand up for what is important to you and lift up the world on your shoulders; you will feel lighter.
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Kindness is the face of compassion; action, the hands; love, the heart; and politics, the voice. Integrate kindness to animals into your life in all these ways.
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Your pets may have been wronged. Certainly you have been wronged. Are you strong enough to forgive? For their sake and for yours, unfold that wrong, feel it, examine it thoughtfully, and forgive. In doing so, your new understanding of that wrong expands your knowledge of it. Then work to change that which created it.
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Pets aren't children. They are beloved life-long guests from another place and time who only need to learn appropriate house manners.
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Be an earth angel. Adopt a not-quite-perfect dog or cat that needs you, and help it heal. Such a companion will teach you much about selfless love, generosity, and tolerance—becoming an earth angel for you.
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Compassion has eyes and ears to sense suffering, hands to relieve it, a heart to sooth it, and a voice to cry out against it—forcing the world to listen.
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My dog is like my guru. Through her I've learned much about love and loyalty, courage and compassion, joy and despair; and best of all, living in the now.
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Loving kindness is the permanent sunshine state of the heart. Resolve to move there today.
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If you are pet-proud, you may as well forget about being house-proud. Just keeping clean is reward enough.
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If you can speak love to the powerless better than you can speak truth to power, then you are like the rest of us.
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Life's big question is NOT "what is my purpose in life?" Excuse me, but who cares! Instead, tell me why is there so much pain and suffering in the world. If you really care about pain and suffering, you'll understand your purpose very well.
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Even when the work is immense and overwhelming and painful, know that purposeful action is the only true antidote to despair.
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We will not know peace until all of the unprotected and unloved are encircled by strong, caring arms.
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Breathe a simple prayer of "Godspeed" to every killed animal you pass on the highway. A prayer is never wasted, never lost, never ignored.
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Be an earth angel. Adopt a not-quite-perfect dog or cat that needs you, and help it heal. Such a companion will teach you much about selfless love, generosity, and tolerance—becoming an earth angel for you.
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Perform an anonymous act of selfless service every day, furthering a great cause, and offer up a simple prayer of gratitude every night for your empowerment.
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My dog is like my guru. Through her I've learned much about love and loyalty, courage and compassion, joy and despair; and best of all, living in the now.
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Your inner self craves the touch of other life; touch connects you to the great unknowable, which we deeply love, no matter the outward forms of worship.
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My dog is my biofeedback mechanism; by observing her reactions to my physical responses to daily life, I've learned to moderate my energies.
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Compassion has eyes and ears to sense suffering, hands to relieve it, a heart to sooth it, and a voice to cry out against it—forcing the world to listen.
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Loving kindness is the permanent sunshine state of the heart. Resolve to move there today.
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If you can speak love to the powerless better than you can speak truth to power, then you are like the rest of us.
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If you are pet-proud, you may as well forget about being house-proud. Just keeping clean is reward enough.
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Observing pet behavior is the best training for participating in office politics.
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The well-being of your "fur family" is solid evidence of the well-being of your own human heart.
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Work your helping hands upon the homeless and downtrodden to know the truth about love.
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Written in blood: Six million dogs and cats are killed each year for the simple "crime" of being homeless. Backyard breeders and mills, face the devastating results of your greed—get a real job. Careless owners who let your intact pets roam outdoors, you share the blame. Pet buyers, resolve to acquire your pets only from homeless animal shelters, breed rescues, and responsible breeders who show, compete, and strive to improve their lines.
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The Facts of Life
A veterinarian had been called to examine a ten-year-old Irish Wolfhound named Buster. The dog's owners and their little boy were all very attached to Buster and they were hoping for a miracle.
The vet examined him and found he was dying of cancer. She told the family there were no miracles left for Buster, and offered to perform a euthanasia procedure for the old dog in their family home.
As the arrangements were made, the dog's owners informed the vet that they felt it appropriate that their four-year old son observe the procedure, knowing he might learn something from the experience. What they didn't know as they planned however, was just how much understanding a little boy could have.
The next day, Buster's family surrounded the sick animal, petting him and saying farewell for the last time, which was understandably difficult. Within a few moments, Buster slipped peacefully away, and the young boy accepted Buster's transition without any apparent confusion.
Because the boy asked no questions, his parents were unclear if he had grasped the meaning of what had occurred and began to gently discuss the event for his benefit. One of the comments made pertained to the fact that animals have much shorter lives than humans.
And yet despite his innocence, apparently nothing that had occurred had been lost to the little boy. He looked at his departed friend, looked up at the veterinarian's face and then his parents, and suddenly replied with innocent yet knowing eyes, "I know why animals don't live as long."
He said with as much conviction as a four-year-old child could muster, "People are born so they can learn how to live a good life—like loving everybody all the time and being really nice, right?" He continued as his mother nodded. "Well, dogs already know how to do that, so they don't have to stay around as long."
If we all were as wise as that at such a young age, what a wonderful world this would be.
—adapted from a
Wisconsin-Illinois (U.S.A.) Regional Rescue Board post
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