“Heartbreak is life educating us.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. ” - Anatole France
“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in. ” - Mark Twain
“If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.” – James Herriot
“Grief is like the ocean; it comes on waves ebbing and flowing. Sometimes the water is calm, and sometimes it is overwhelming. All we can do is learn to swim.” - Vicki Harrison
“No heaven will not ever Heaven be. Unless my cats are there to welcome me.” - Anonymous
“Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.” - Roger Caras
“If I have any beliefs about immortality it is that certain dogs I know will go to heaven, and very very few people.” - James Thurber
“…love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.” - Kabil Gibran
“All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” - Saint Francis of Assisi
“God’s finger touched him, and he slept.” - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
“You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.” - Eleanor Roosevelt
“It is a fearful thing to love what death can touch.” - Anonymous
“The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven, not man’s.” - Mark Twain
“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” - Isaac Asimov
“Death ends a life, not a relationship.” - Jack Lemmon
“A pet is never truly forgotten until it is no longer remembered.” - Lacie Petitto
“If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went.” - Will Rogers
“Don’t cry because it’s over, Smile because it happened.” - Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
“The risk of love is loss, and the price of loss is grief. But the pain of grief is only a shadow when compared with the pain of never risking love.” - Hilary Stanton Zunin
“Grieve not, nor speak of me with tears, but laugh and talk of me as if I were beside you..I loved you so- ’twas Heaven here with you.” - Isla Paschal Richardson
“Dogs…do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.” - Eugene O’Neill, from his Dalmatian, Blemie’s, last will and testament
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
-Anatole France
All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.
-Samuel Butler
No one loves you unconditionally as your beloved pet.
-Cynthia S. Dobesh
Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
-Roger Caras
Although it’s difficult today to see beyond the sorrow, may looking back in memory help comfort you tomorrow.
-Author Unknown
The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.
-Samuel Butler
Don’t cry because it’s over, Smile because it happened.
-Dr. Seuss
May every sunrise hold more promise, every moonrise hold more peace.
-Author Unknown
We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
-Immanual Kant
There is no death. Only a change of worlds.
-Chief Seattle
Nothing to be done really about animals. Anything you do looks foolish. The answer isn’t in us. It’s almost as if were put here on earth to show how silly they aren’t.
-Russell Hoban
What we have once enjoyed we can never lose;
All that we love deeply,
becomes a part of us.
-Helen Keller
I believe all animals were created by God to help keep man alive.
-Iwao Fujita
That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog’s fidelity!
-Thomas Hardy