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This wonderful portrait was created by Harald Löffler at Eye Of The Tiger, a very talented photographer who once created an amazing calendar and sold it in aid of 21st Century Tiger.
Here is his story: "Once upon a time there was a national park in India. For a long time there lived a healthy Tiger population in this park. In 2005, during a very short period of time (about one month), all the Tigers fell prey to poachers. When I heard about this horrible incident I decided to create a limited edition of my “Cats Unlimited 2006” calendar"... Read further.

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"Teach your children to honor themselves with integrity and you will teach them to honor your love."

Wes Fessler

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"Beauty without grace is the hook without the bait"

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"The work goes on, the cause endures, the hope still lives and the dreams shall never die".

Edward Kennedy

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"From birth, man carries the weight of gravity on his shoulders. He is bolted to earth. But man has only to sink beneath the surface and he is free"

Jacques Cousteau (1910-1997)

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"The start of a World Cross Country event is like riding a horse in the middle of a buffalo stampede. It's a thrill if you keep up, but one slip and you're nothing but hoof prints".

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"A lion's work hours are only when he's hungry; once he's satisfied, the predator and prey live peacefully together".

by Chuck Jones

The photographer's site is here

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"There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved. It is God's finger on man's shoulder".

~Charles Morgan

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"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul'
~Moshe Dayan

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“An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship”

Oscar Wilde

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“So many people walk around with a meaningless life. They seem half-asleep, even when they're busy doing things they think are important. This is because they're chasing the wrong things. The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.”

Morrie Schwartz

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"There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living".

Don Marquis

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“There is an old Cherokee story about a grandfather who is teaching his grandson about life. He says to his grandson, ‘A fight is going on inside me. It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One is evil; he is anger, envy, greed, arrogance, self-pity, resentment, and superiority. The other is good; he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, generosity, and compassion. This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person, too.’

The grandson thinks about this for a minute and then asks his grandfather, ‘Which wolf will win?’

The old Cherokee simply replies, ‘The one we feed.’”

from Zoe Weil’s book "Most Good, Least Harm"

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"Hear! hear!" screamed the jay from a neighboring tree, where I had heard a tittering for some time, "winter has a concentrated and nutty kernel, if you know where to look for it." ~Henry David Thoreau

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"No day is so bad it can't be fixed with a nap". ~ Carrie Snow

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...off to see the world

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"It is in his pleasure that a man really lives; it is from his leisure that he constructs the true fabric of self".

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recreation time

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...forever friends