Horses lend us the wings we lack.

Riding turns 'I wish into 'I can'.

Bears need people. People need bears.

Be wary of the horse with a sense of humor.

A dog wakens your heart to joy and companionship.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

If you've only one breath left, use it to say thank you.

Love is to understand, at last, the suffering of another.

Integrity rings like fine glass. True, clear, and reassuring.

One small cat changes coming home to an empty house to coming home.

Sisters share the scent and smells... the feel of a common childhood.

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.

Give a pup a home and a little love and he will give you his heart forever.

Kittens are wide-eyed, soft and sweet. With needles in their jaws and feet.

Sisters never quite forgive each other for what happened when they were five.

The courage of very ordinary people is all that stands between us and the dark.

Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.

Dads don't need to be tall and broad-shouldered and clever. Love makes them so.

Thank you for being interested. Doesn't sound much but it meant just about everything.

A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers.

Cats can work out mathematically the exact place to sit that will cause most inconvenience.

A cat likes to hear you calling him. He sits in a bush a yard from your shoes - and listens.

Mothers are the pivot on which the family spins, Mothers are the pivot on which the world spins.

The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

Medicines may be necessary. Flowers lift the heart. But your smile is the best restorative of all.

Dads are most ordinary men turned by love into heroes, adventurers, story-tellers, singers of songs.

Always smile back at little children. To ignore them is to destroy their belief that the world is good.

However time or circumstances may come between mother and her child, their lives are interwoven forever.

Bears being sent through the mail should never be squashed up to make them fit. It gives them indigestion.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

The work of a garden bears visible fruits-in a world where most of our labours seem suspiciously meaningless.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

A teddy bear does not depend upon mechanics to give him the semblance of life. He is loved - and therefore he lives.

In a world gone bad, a bear - even a bear standing on its head - is a comforting, uncomplicated, dependable hunk of sanity.

An older sister is a friend and defender - a listener, conspirator, a counsellor and a sharer of delights. And sorrows too.

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 horse can lend its rider the speed and strength he or she lacks - but the rider who is wise remembers it is no more then a loan.

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.

For every person who has ever lived there has come, at last, a spring he will never see. Glory then in the springs that are yours.

For sheer excitement you can keep movie premieres and roller-coasters . An empty white canvas waiting to be filled. That's the thing.

Friendship is not diminished by distance or time, by imprisonment or war, by suffering or silence. It is in these things that it roots most deeply.

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.

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.

It's hard to visualize the toys you had fifty years ago - all save bear. He's as clear as if he were sitting on the desk in front of you...of course...he probably is.

A horse is the projection of peoples' dreams about themselves - strong, powerful, beautiful - and it has the capability of giving us escape from our mundane existence.

We have become a society where the artist is regarded as a self-indulgent superfluity, and the person who juggles stocks and shares is an essential part of the economy.

The child who ran weeping to you with a cut finger is now brought home, smiling gamely, with a broken collarbone and incredible contusions- 'it wasn't Jezebels fault, Dad.'

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.

Human beings are drawn to cats because they are all we are not — self-contained, elegant in everything they do, relaxed, assured, glad of company, yet still possessing secret lives.

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