Doglover Quotes & Sayings

Try not to compare your children, even if you think you are skillful at it. You may say most positively that "Susan is pretty and Sandra is bright," but all Susan will remember is that she isn't bright and Sandra that she isn't pretty. Praise each child individually for what that child is and help him or her escape our culture's obsession with comparing, competing, and never feeling we are "enough. — Jeffrey R. Holland

Dogs, on the other hand... dogs have pure souls. Look at me." I grab her chin and look straight into her eyes. "Dogs are always good and full of selfless love. They are undiluted vessels of joy who never, ever deserve anything bad that happens to them. Especially you. Since the day I met you, you have done nothing but make my life better in every possible way. Do you understand? — Steven Rowley

Just remember that those who feel profoundly depressed are those whose happiness is likewise intense. What's so wrong with that? — Ashly Lorenzana

When you have enough, there is no need for excessiveness. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Bravery escapes more dangers than cowardice. — Joseph Alexandre Pierre De Segur, Viscount Of Segur

The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is
futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone
who is capable of significant change; that sort of person
exists only in our imaginations. — Scott Adams

I've been hit in the head so many times, it's hard to remember that far back. I don't remember specific games. — Jim McMahon

If you want to be a doctor, a lawyer you must go to college. But if you want to be a musician or such, study your craft. Study music. — Billy Eckstine

However incoherent a human existence may be, human unity is not bothered by it. — Charles Baudelaire

A wind picked up, rattling the windows, and the candle flames suddenly shifted, dancing along the border between turbulence and order. — Jeannette Walls

Surely if men are sufficient masters of things to build a howitzer
they ought to know better than to destroy each other with it.
- Stewart Gore-Browne, from Arras, 1916. — Christina Lamb

Oh, Benjamin... I have not come yet, and I already wish to fuck you again." Benjamin — K.A. Merikan

Loving yourself comes first from there everything else falls into place — Shellie Palmer

Do not falter or shrink; But just think out your work, And just work out your think. — Nixon Waterman

I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I would have made a very good bishop: nice housekeeper, nice clothes - god, the clothes. — Colm Toibin

I would tell anyone who wants something from someone else to feign not wanting it. People are perverse. If you show great affection to them, they'll run the other way. — Hedy Lamarr