“I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts.” – John Steinbeck (author, The Grapes of Wrath)
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"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." – Milan Kundera (Author, The Unbearable Lightness of Being)
They don't know jealousy?? He needs to be with me when I'm giving attention to one of my dogs. He'll change his mind about the jealousy part!
"It is amazing how much love and laughter they [dogs] bring into our lives and even how much closer we become with each other because of them." – John Grogan (Author, Marley & Me)
"All his life he tried to be a good person. Many times, however, he failed. For after all, he was only human. He wasn't a dog." – Charles M Schulz (cartoonist, "Peanuts")
"Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer." – Dean Koontz