Carnival of Animals

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. – Anatole France

A horse is worth more than riches. – Spanish Proverb

Histories are more full of the examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends. – Alexander Pope

All things bright and beautiful,

All creatures great and small,

All things wise and wonderful:

The Lord God made them all.

-Cecil Frances, 1848

You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us. – Robert Louis Stevenson

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and answers, is contained in the dog. – Franz Kafka, Investigations of the Dog

Indian Railways

There's no better way to enjoy India's outback, cities, coastal towns and regional areas in comfort.

There’s something about the sound of a train that’s very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful. – Paul Simon

The train is a small world moving through a larger world. – Elisha Cooper, Train

Railway terminals are our gates to the glorious and the unknown. Through them, we pass out into adventure and sunshine, to them, alas! we return. – E. M. Forster

Life is a train that stops at no stations; you either jump aboard or stand on the platform and watch as it passes. – Yasmina Khadra

A train is a vehicle that allows residence: dinner in the diner, nothing could be finer… – Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar

The Place We Call Home

Home is the nicest word there is. – Laura Ingalls Wilder

Home should be an oratorio of the memory, 

singing to all our after life melodies and

harmonies of old remembered joy.

– Henry Ward Beecher

It takes a lot of living to make a house a home

It doesn’t make any difference how rich you get to be

How much your chairs and tables cost, how great your luxury

It isn’t home to you though it be the palace of a king,

Until somehow your soul is wrapped round everything.

– Paraphrase of Edgar Guest poem, Home

Nor need we power or splendor,

wide hall or lordly dome;

the good, the true, the tender-

these form the wealth of home.

– Sarah J. Hale

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

– Helen Rowland

Home is the place where, when you have to go there,

they have to take you in.

– Robert Frost

It Takes Two

To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with. - Mark Twain

 

As a child my family's menu consisted of two choices: take it or leave it. -  Buddy Hackett

A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous. -  Coco Chanel

If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. - Confucius

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. -  J. P. Morgan

Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.  -  Aristotle

 

There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there. -  Indira Gandhi

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Time for a little bit of everything

Time progresses in an infinite pattern of simple events. Life is about taking some of that Time to escape banality with simple pleasures.

 

 

“It`s not how old you are, it`s how you are old.” 
- Jules Renard

 

 

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
- Paul Theroux 



 

 

 

The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application.
- Miguel de Cervantes 

 

 

“Ice cream is happiness condensed.” 

-Jessie Lane Adams

 

 

Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it. - Benjamin Franklin

 

 

 

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
- Thomas Hobbes 

 

“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy.”
- Thich Nhat Hanh

 

 

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?
-J. B. Priestley 
 

 

 

 

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
-Marcel Proust