Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us.
A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there; I did not die.
If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.
When you awaken in the morning's hush I am the swift uplifting rush Of quiet birds in circled flight. I am the soft stars that shine at night. Do not stand at my grave and cry; I am not there, I did not die.
If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.
Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace.
Not the least hard thing to bear when they go from us, these quiet friends, is that they carry away with them so many years of our own lives.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.
No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does.
He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. Our dogs will love and admire the meanest of us, and feed our colossal vanity with their uncritical homage.
The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.
The one best place to bury a good dog is in the heart of his master.
The average dog is a nicer person than the average person.
There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats.
The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.
Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.
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