“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.”
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“...of eighteen kittens reared in the company of rodents, only three became rodent-killers later on. The other fifteen could not be trained to kill later by seeing other cats killing. For them the rodents had become 'family' and were no longer 'prey'. Even the three killers would not attack rodents of the same species as the one with which they were reared.”
― Catwatching: The Essential Guide To Cat Behaviour
― Catwatching: The Essential Guide To Cat Behaviour
“The attempt to see through eyes that are not your own. To understand that your way of looking at the world is not the only one. To think what it might mean to love those that are not like you. To rejoice in the complexity of things.”
― Vesper Flights
― Vesper Flights
“He was the first to recognise me, and to love what he saw.”
― Jane Eyre
― Jane Eyre
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