"The best of all medicines is resting and fasting." -- Benjamin Franklin

There's a lot we can learn from cats. They are independent, resourceful, and affectionate. In short, they live life on their own terms. That's the thesis, anyway, of a pocket-size book of quotations, "Cat-titudes to Live By," which is filled with irresistible images of kittens illustrating these values.

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Text adapted from: "Cat-titudes to Live By." Copyright (c) 2008 by Rachael Hale (r). Published by Harvest House Publishers, Eugene, OR. Used by permission.

"The paradox of courage is that a man must be a little careless of his life even in order to keep it." -- G.K. Chesterton

"Optimism is essential to achievement and it is also the foundation of courage and true progress." -- Nicholas Murray Butler

"Many a friendship -- long, loyal, and self-sacrificing -- rested at first upon no thicker a foundation than a kind word." -- Frederick W. Faber

Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able, yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom." -- William Penn

"You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation." -- Plato

"Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be." -- Abraham Lincoln

"Where there is life, there is hope. Where there are hopes, there are dreams." -- Dennis Waitley

"It is a curious thing in human experience, but to live through a period of stress and sorrow with another person creates a bond which nothing seems able to break." -- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently." -- Henry Ford

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -- Dorothy Parker

"Unless you try to do something beyond what you have mastered, you will never grow." -- C.R. Lawton

"Never say you don't have enough time....You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein." -- Author Unknown

"Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer's day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time." -- Sir John Lubbock

"Growth is the only evidence of life." -- John Henry Newman

"Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody." -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Necessity may be the mother of invention, but play is certainly the father." -- Roger von Oech

"Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." -- Theodore Roosevelt

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile." -- Franklin P. Jones

"Cat-titudes to Live By" draws from the wisdom of cats, who are experts at playtime, naptime, and mealtime. They know the value of a warm corner to snooze in, and they cherish solitude just about as much as they love curling up on your lap. In short, cats live life on their own terms. Having just the right cat-titude can tip the scales to the positive in just about any situation. Published by Harvest House Publishers.