[Mostly] Wordless Wednesday

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Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, “I will try again tomorrow.”

-Mary Anne Radamacher

[Mostly] Wordless Wednesday

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“The animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren; they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth.”

~Henry Beston

[Mostly] Wordless Wednesday

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There are no secrets to dog training or weight loss.

-Debbie Jacobs

[Mostly] Wordless Wednesday

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Once I spoke the language of the flowers,
Once I understood each word the caterpillar said,
Once I smiled in secret at the gossip of the starlings,
And shared a conversation with the housefly in my bed.
Once I heard and answered all the questions of the crickets,
And joined the crying of each falling dying flake of snow,
Once I spoke the language of the flowers. . . .
How did it go?
How did it go?

- Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

[Mostly] Wordless Wednesday

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“Listen a hundred times; ponder a thousand times; speak once.”

 Turkish Proverb

[Mostly] Wordless Wednesday

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“We now understand that higher-level thinking is more likely to occur in the brain of a student who is emotionally secure than in the brain of a student who is scared, upset, anxious, or stressed.”

-Mawhinney and Sagan

[Mostly] Wordless Wednesday

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“An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.”

- Martin Buber

[Mostly] Wordless Wednesday

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“Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.”

- Sarah Dessen

[Mostly] Wordless Wednesday

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“Dance first, think later–
it’s the natural order.”

- Mexican saying

[Mostly] Wordless Wednesday

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“The assumption that force and coercion free training doesn’t work for all dogs is like assuming that ice skates don’t work because you keep falling down.”

- Debbie Jacobs