Pure
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We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.
It may be possible to gild pure gold, but who can make his mother more beautiful?
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful.
Kids leave us and go off on their own lives. Family members tell us what they think of us. Animals can't do that. They really are blank canvases, and we can project anything we want onto them. So the relationship is very pure and simple.
There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.
Stop setting goals. Goals are pure fantasy unless you have a specific plan to achieve them.
This is a candidate who never even thought about policy. What Trump represents is pure willpower and the notion of breaking through the system.
Like all pure creatures, cats are practical.
