"But she was an animal, right? She didn't have feelings, right?
But that was humanist thinking: Because animals aren't exactly like us, they are infinitely different, wholly other. Thus we can treat them however we like.
But animals are not wholly other. Their consciousness steps down from ours in infinitesimal steps, just as there is infinite variation among us. Who is to say
that the most intellectual and creative of chimpanzees is not above the level of the most stupid and brutal of humans? And behind chimpanzees, other
primates, and behind them, perhaps, dolphins or dogs, whales or cats. None of them wholly different from us, but rather differing only in degrees.
Capable of love, of feeling, of knowing, of remembering.
And so if it matters how you treat humans, it matters how you treat animals."
--Lovelock, Orson Scott Card

“Jonathan, remember what you said a long time ago, about loving the Flock enough to return to it and help it learn?”
“Yes.”
“I don’t understand how you manage to love a mob of birds that has just tried to kill you.”
“Oh, Fletch, you don’t love that! You don’t love hatred and evil, of course. You have to practise and see the real gull, the
good in every one of them, and to help them see it in themselves. That’s what I mean by love. It’s fun, when you get the
knack of it.”
--Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach

"The years are not what makes us tame, its doing things the same way everyday that grinds us grey.
Habits rising 'round our feet hide us from each other. Only flight will save us now; Come away with me."

"The greatest disease is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine,
but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but
there are many more dying for a little love." -- Mother Teresa

"Life is eternal, and love is immortal,
and death is only a horizon;
And a horizon is nothing save the limit of our sight." -- Rossiter Worthington Raymond

"Tragedy and comedy are but two aspects of what is real, and whether we see the tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective."
-- Arnold Beisser

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford