Cheri Rogers

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
― Immanuel Kant

“If man is not to stifle his human feelings, he must practice kindness towards animals, for he who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
― Immanuel Kant

“Everything is in constant flux on this earth. Nothing keeps the same unchanging shape, and our affections, being attached to things outside us, necessarily change and pass away as they do. Always out ahead of us or lagging behind, they recall a past which is gone or anticipate a future which may never come into being; there is nothing solid there for the heart to attach itself to. Thus our earthly joys are almost without exception the creatures of a moment...”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Meditations of a Solitary Walker

“However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.”
― Jean-Jacques Rousseau