#dog

If you don't own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life. ↗

— Roger Caras

#dog #least #life #may #necessarily

It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal. ↗

— John Grogan

#relationships #life

When what you want is a relationship, and not a person, get a dog. ↗

— Deb Caletti

#dog #love #relationship #romance #truth

After years of having a dog, you know him. You know the meaning of his snuffs and grunts and barks. Every twitch of the ears is a question or statement, every wag of the tail is an exclamation. ↗

— Robert R. McCammon

#life

the poor dog, in life the firmest friend, the first to welcome, the foremost to defend. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#quote #life

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog has made an alliance with us. ↗

— Max DePree

#dogs #life

We used to have a dog named Snoopy, you know, a real live dog. I suppose people who love Snoopy won't like it, but we gave him away. He fought with other dogs, so we traded him in for a load of gravel. ↗

— Charles M. Schulz

#life

The poor dog, in life the firmest friend, The first to welcome, foremost to defend, Whose honest heart is still the master's own, Who labours, fights, lives, breathes for him alone, Unhonour'd falls, unnoticed all his worth, Denied in heaven the soul he held on earth, While man, vain insect hopes to be forgiven, And claims himself a sole exclusive heaven. ↗

— George Gordon Byron

#lord-byron #life

As for me: I loyally remained right where I was, remembering the very first I had ever seen the boy and then just now, the very last time-and all the times in between. The deep aching grief I knew I would feel would come soon enough, but at that moment mostly what I felt was peace, secure in the knowledge that by living my life the way I had, everything had come down to this moment. I had fulfilled my purpose. ↗

— W. Bruce Cameron

#life

Last, I would like to thank the dogs, not just the Vick pack, but all of them, simply for being dogs, which is to say, tolerant and perseverant; willing to connect with a world that does not always return their affection; and for proving, time and again, that life, while messy, difficult, and imperfect, has the capacity to exceed our expectations and feed our undying hope. ↗

— Jim Gorant

#inspirational #inspirational