#dog

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#love #pets #relationships #life

You'd help if you could, wouldn't you, boy?" I said. "It's no wonder they call you man's best friend. Faithful and loyal and true, you share in our sorrows and rejoice with us in our triumphs, the truest friend we ever have known, a better friend than we deserve. You have thrown in your lot with us, through thick and thin, on battlefield and hearthrug, refusing to leave your master even when death and destruction lie all around. Ah, noble dog, you are the furry mirror in which we see our better selves reflected, man as he could be, unstained by war or ambition, unspoilt by- ↗

— Connie Willis

#loyalty #death

If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog. ↗

— Niall Horan

#horan #lady #love #niall #nice

A dog has the soul of a philosopher. ↗

— Plato

#doglovers #kindness #love #love

Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit. ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#love #love

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag. ↗

— Christopher Hitchens

#dogs #humour #korean-cuisine #north-korea #pyongyang

No one can give anyone else the gift of the idyll; only an animal can do so, because only animals were not expelled from Paradise. The love between dog and man is idyllic. It knows no conflicts, no hair-raising scenes; it knows no development. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#idyll #love

We expressed love for this dog by ... knowing without showing that we cared for him. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#dog #love #love

Dogs are actually very smart, it's just that they're rather clumsy, but it's this trait that makes humans attracted to them and why I love dogs so much. ↗

— Hiromu Arakawa

#love

It’s not how you look in the mirror that's important, what's important is how you are reflected in the eyes of the people who love you. --T. Hammond (Red Rover) ↗

— T. Hammond

#blind-seduction #don-t-swear-in-front-of-the-dog #he-repeats-everything #talking-dog #love