Fall in love with a dog, and in many ways you enter a new orbit, a universe that features not just new colors but new rituals, new rules, a new way of experiencing attachment.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Loving and parenting a dog as a single parent can create all sorts of new and unusual problems, but also new sources of joy.
Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs - loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love - can be elusive to humans.
The bond with a true dog is as lasting as the ties of this earth will ever be.
I've been in that angst of loneliness, where you're really alone in the universe, except for the dog.
Because of the dog's joyfulness, our own is increased. It is no small gift. It is not the least reason why we should honor as love the dog of our own life, and the dog down the street, and all the dogs not yet born.
Just being with dogs, I learned their ways and began to appreciate things from their point of view.
My main characters are the most sunny, happy, optimistic, loving creatures on the face of the Earth. I couldn't be happier that's where I start. I can put as many flawed people in the dog's world as I like, but the dog doesn't care. Dog doesn't judge. Dog doesn't dislike. Dog loves. That's not so bad.
When you look into the eyes of an animal you've rescued, you can't help but fall in love.
Observe constantly that all things take place by change, and accustom thyself to consider that the nature of the Universe loves nothing so much as to change the things which are, and to make new things like them.
Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?