This is what Grief feels like

Don’t judge it

Don’t rush it

Don’t dismiss it

Don’t suppress it

There is no Rulebook for Grief.

It comes in waves. And tonight I pray for the ones who feel as though they’re drowning.

(Author unknown)

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A dog defines another being from who they are inside. Colour, class and popularity don’t come into it. They don’t care if your wealthy or how sociable you are. They really don’t mind if you have a bad day and bundle into a blanket without saying a word. Point being, the best friend I need around me is a dog. A pure hearted, devoted, selfless, excitable canine

(Ladybug Art)

Quote by Christopher Walken (grief)

(Source: Facebook)

Nothing you love is lost

Nothing you love is lost. Not really.

Things, people, pets, they always go away sooner or later. You can’t hold them anymore than you can hold the moonlight.

But if they’ve touched you, if they’re inside you, then they’re still yours.

The only things you ever really have are the ones you hold inside your heart.

(Bruce Loville)

The truest form of love

The truest form of love is where you are able to put your own needs aside to do what is best for the one you love. If you knew where I am now and if you love as you say you do, you would never ever wish me back from the love and the comfort and the bliss of where I am and where I wait for you.

(Jack McAfghan, from “Return from Rainbow Bridge”)

Love is ...

Love is … making a lifetime commitment to your dog … in good times and in bad, in sickness and in health, until death do you part. Amen!

(Author unknown)

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A house is never lonely where a loving dog waits.

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Give your heart to a dog. He will never break it.

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A dog will pour its heart into your soul and never ask for it back.

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Sometimes a dog is the only one that can fill the void in your empty heart.

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Animals don’t hate, and we’re supposed to be better than them.

(Elvis Presley)

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When we take the time to gain understanding about an animal’s nature, we come to realize they love, have feelings, loyalty and even have a soul. I am so grateful to anyone and everyone who has stood up for Earths animals.

(April Peerless)

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Sometimes you don’t need words to feel better; you just need the nearness of your dog.

(Natalie Lloyd)

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Sometimes I think I like dogs more than I like humans … The only time a dog has ever betrayed me … was by dying.

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No matter what life throws at you … at the end of the day, your dog still loves you!

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The world would be a nicer place if everyone had the ability to love as unconditionally as a dog.

(M.K. Clinton)

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The journey of life is best traveled with a dog.

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Never moan about the paw prints on your floor, smudges on your windows or the dog hair on your clothes.

One day you will wish they were still there!

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Nobody’s going to tell me that my dog doesn’t love me. That’s crazy talk.

(Carrie Underwood)

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Always take care of your dog. Even if your world falls apart, he will still be there for you!

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Your dog will never wake up one day and decide he doesn’t love you anymore.

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Those who teach the most about humanity aren’t always human.

(Donald L. Hicks)

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If you are looking for true love, look into your dogs eyes.

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No time on earth is long enough to share

with the animals we love,

or prepare our hearts to say goodbye.

 

(Author unknown)

Quotes by Gene Hill

I can’t think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog – completely exhausted after a hard day in the field – limps away from her nice spot in front of the fire and comes over to where I’m sitting and puts her head in my lap, a paw over my knee, and closes her eyes, and goes back to sleep. I don’t know what I’ve done to deserve that kind of friend.

 

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Who said you can not buy happiness, when you are thinking about puppies

 

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No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

 

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We never really own a dog as much as he owns us.

(from “Brown Dog, Tears & Laughter”)

 

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Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies.

 

(Gene Hill (1928-1997))

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A watchdog is a dog kept to guard your home, usually by sleeping where a burglar would awaken the household by falling over him.

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Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

(J.M. Barrrie)

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Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at nothing right in your ear.

(Dave Barry)

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Every boy should have a dog. It teaches him to turn around three times before lying down.

(Robert Benchley)

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A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself.

(Josh Billings)

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Tell me, if you can, of anything that's finer than an evening in camp with a rare old friend and a dog after one's hear.

(Nash Buckingham, from “Hail and Farewell”)

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The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool out of yourself with him, and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool out of himself too.

(Samuel Butler)

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It is hard to teach an old dog tricks.

(William Camden, 1605)

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It is naught good a sleepying hound to wake.

(Chaucer)

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The nose of the Bulldog has been slanted backwards so that he can breathe without letting go.

(Winston Churchill)

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When thieves come, I bark; when gallants, I am still - So perform both my master's and mistress's will.

(Samuel Taylor Coleridge)

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'Twould make a dog laugh.

(J.P. Collier, ca. 1603)

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If you have done much chasing of bobwhite quail, you will recall days when you could not hit a flushing blanket with all four corners going in different directions. And when, after repeated misses, one of the old dogs turned from his lingering point and indignantly stared at you. Under such circumstances, I have seen a variety of eyes eloquently pleading for me to get on the stick or go home and sign up for skeet lessons.

(Charley Dickey, from “Florida Sportsman: How to Help a Bird Dog”, Jan 1982)

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It's a puppy ...  it's kind of like Prozac.

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Folk will know how large your soul is, by the way you treat a dog!

(Charles F. Dornan)

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What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

(Dwight D. Eisenhower)

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We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.

(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)

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Old age means realizing you will never own all the dogs you wanted to.

(Joe Gores)

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A dog is not 'almost human' and I know of no greater insult to the canine race than to describe it as such.

(John Holmes)

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Who kicks a dog kicks his own soul towards hell.

(Will Judy)

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A dog is a liberal ... He wants to please everybody.

(William Kunstler)

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The road to my heart is paved with paw prints.

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Let dogs delight to bark, for God hath made them so.

(Isaac Watts)

 

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There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face.

(Ben Williams)

 

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Old dogs, like old shoes, are comfortable. They might be a bit out of shape and a little worn around the edges, but they fit us well.

(Bonnie Wilcox)

 

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If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the face, you should go home and examine your conscience.

(Woodrow Wilson)

 

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It is fatal to let any dog know that he is funny, for he immediately loses his head and starts hamming it up.

(P.G. Wodehouse)

 

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What we have enjoyed we can never lose;

all that we love deeply becomes a part of us.

(Helen Keller)

 

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She whom we love and lose is no longer where she was before. She is now wherever we are.

(St. John Chrysostom)

Grief

It's not the kind of sadness to where you cry all the time, but more of like the sadness that overwhelms your entire body, leaving your heart aching and your stomach empty.

Making you feel week and tired.

And yet you can't even sleep because the sadness is in your dreams too.

It's almost a sadness you can't escape.

 

(Niluh Djelantik)

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Our animals shepherd us through certain eras of our lives.
When we are ready to turn the corner and make it on our own ... they let us go.

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We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own, live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.

(Irving Townsend)

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A morning kiss, a discreet touch of his nose landing somewhere on the middle of my face.  Because his long white whiskers tickled, I began every day laughing.

(Janet F. Faure)

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Dogs come when called. Cats take a message and get back to you.

(Edward Verrall Luca)

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Those who teach the most about humanity, aren’t always human.

(Donald L. Hicks)

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Everyone thinks they have the best dog … and none of them are wrong.

(W. R. Purche)

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You cannot share your life with a dog and not know perfectly well
that animals have personalities, minds and feelings.

(Dr. Jane Goodall)

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Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.

Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.

Just walk beside me and be my friend.

 

(Albert Camus)

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Until one has loved an animal, part of one's soul remains unawakened.

(Anatole France)

 

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My sunshine doesn’t come from the skies; it comes from the love in my dog’s eyes.

 

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No one can fully understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. A dog can show you more honest affection with a flick of his tail than a man can gather through a lifetime of handshakes.

(Gene Hill (1928-1997))

 

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Dogs have given us their absolute all. We are the center of their universe. We are the focus of their love and faith and trust. They serve us in return for scraps. It is without a doubt the best deal man has ever made.

 

(Roger Andrew Caras (1928 - 2001))

 

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If you don’t own a dog, at least one, there is not necessarily anything wrong with you, but there may be something wrong with your life.

(Roger Andrew Caras (1928 - 2001))

 

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For me a house or an apartment becomes a home when you add one set of four legs, a happy tail, and that indescribable measure of love that we call a dog.

(Roger Andrew Caras (1928 - 2001))

To my dog

I would not leave you behind for anything.

I will carry you over hard times like you have carried me through mine.

(Author unknown)

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Compassion for animals is intimately

connected with goodness of character;

and it may be confidently asserted

that he who is cruel to animals

cannot be a good man.

 

(Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860))

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Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

 

(John Grogan)

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Dogs are miracles with paws.

 

(Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy)

 

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