#dogs

I always like a dog so long as he isn't spelled backward. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#humor #religion #humor

I say, thirteen is too many dogs for good mental health. Five is pretty much the limit. More than five dogs and you forfeit your right to call yourself entirely sane. Even if the dogs are small. ↗

— E. Lockhart

#humor #psychotherapy #sanity #humor

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one. ↗

— Claire Cook

#humor #humor

The capacity for love that makes dogs such rewarding companions has a flip-side: They find it difficult to cope without us. Since we humans programmed this vulnerability, it's our responsibility to ensure that our dogs do not suffer as a result. ↗

— John Bradshaw

#love #responsibility #love

I've got nine kids, nine dogs, three grandkids - and one in the oven. And three parrots! ↗

— Michael Landon

#got #grandkids #i #kids #nine

Do dogs understand death? Do they have souls? Do they go to heaven? I have alway believed so, but this [event] confirmed that all of God's creatures , humans and animals, have a soul and that we will all be reunited in heaven. My pastor once told me, "If there are no dogs in heaven, I don't want to go." I agree. ↗

— Glenwood McNabb

#death #dogs #inspirational #death

Dogs have more love than integrity. They've been true to us, yes, but they haven't been true to themselves. ↗

— Clarence Day

#integrity #love #love

Today we have made a fetish of choice; but a chosen death is forbidden. Perhaps what distinguishes humans from other animals is that humans have learnt to cling more abjectly to life. ↗

— John Gray

#dying-animals #humans #life #straw-dogs #suicide

Usually the things that kill us are the things we do every single day. ↗

— J. M. McDermott

#dogsland #habit #never-knew-another #death

given the nature of the human couple, the love of a man and a woman is a priori inferior to that which can exist (at least in the best instances) in the love between man and dog...It is a completely selfless love. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#love #love