Daphne Sheldrick Quotes
They, who have suffered so much at the hands of humans, never lose the ability to forgive, even though, being elephants, they will never be able to forget.
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I'm still passionately interested in what my fellow humans are up to. For me, a day spent monitoring the passing parade is a day well – spent.
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I don't look at computers as opponents. For me it is much more interesting to beat humans.
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The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat.
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When you believe in things that you don't understand, then you suffer.
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You humans, always eating. I'll make you soup. You can eat it while you keep working." Myrnin set aside his book and walked into the back of the lab. "Don't use the same beaker you used for poisons!" Claire yelled after him. He waved a pale hand. "I mean it!
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For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die.
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Go out on the stage as a human being and do not be afraid to show struggle in your music. It's a struggle in life and then struggle and then victory.
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It takes years to develop into the kind of human being you want to be.
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If your love didn't always contain the possibility of loss, it would be very different from human love as we know it.
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I swear, I have no understanding of other human beings.
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Let us, at any rate, give heed to suffer joyfully the crosses that God sends us, because they all, if we are saved, will become for us eternal joys. When infirmities, pains, or any adversities afflict us, let us lift up our eyes to heaven and say, "One day all these pains will have an end, and after them I hope to enjoy God forever."
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Our elders say that an elephant does not find its own trunk heavy.
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The world is not a burden; we make it a burden by our desires. When the desires are removed, the world is as light as a feather on an elephant's back.
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Divorce is the one human tragedy that reduces everything to cash.
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Fiction is the only way I know a human being can inhabit the mind of another human being.
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To perceive is to suffer.
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And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty.
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Committee meetings are always held at inconvenient times and usually take place in dark, dusty rooms the temperatures of which are unsuited to the human body.
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The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.
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Conscience, that vicegerent of God in the human heart, whose "still small voice" the loudest revelry cannot drown.
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Well, it's not my fault that you can't manage your money.' You threw away my purse.' I thought it was an enemy.
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One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed.
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I would have liked maybe to be in architecture or painting, something connected to the fine arts.
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They, who have suffered so much at the hands of humans, never lose the ability to forgive, even though, being elephants, they will never be able to forget.
