#pets

Death is a release from the impressions of the senses, and from desires that make us their puppets, and from the vagaries of the mind, and from the hard service of the flesh. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#desires #flesh #hard #impressions #make

Cats are a mysterious kind of folk. ↗

— Walter Scott

#pets #pets

Your pet is not your friend. It is your hostage. ↗

— Scott Dikkers

#pets

I like people who are still actively creating in their life, who aren't set, I don't feel like I'm set. And I don't have any baggage, for better or worse. I don't have any plants or pets or kids. I can lock the door and go. I need to be with somebody for whom that's okay. ↗

— Dana Delany

#any #baggage #better #creating #door

It's difficult to understand why people don't realize that pets are gifts to mankind. ↗

— Linda Blair

#gifts #mankind #people #pets #realize

Adopted pets are the best pets you can have. Most adoptable pets come from loving homes that simply cannot care for them anymore. Or, they are strays who've been on their own without the loving care they deserve. ↗

— Josh Duhamel

#anymore #been #best #cannot #care

We are no longer puppets being manipulated by outside powerful forces: we become the powerful force ourselves. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#being #force #forces #longer #manipulated

I never married because there was no need. I have three pets at home which answer the same purpose as a husband. I have a dog which growls every morning, a parrot which swears all afternoon, and a cat that comes home late at night. ↗

— Marie Corelli

#afternoon #answer #because #cat #comes