A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself. ~Josh Billings

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened. ~Anatole France

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats. ~Albert Schweitzer

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult. ~Rita Rudner

The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. ~Charles de Gaulle

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ~Abraham Lincoln

Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms. ~George Eliot

Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. ~Milan Kundera

As anyone who has ever been around a cat for any length of time well knows, cats have enormous patience with the limitations of the human kind. ~Cleveland Amory

It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more. ~Agnes Repplier

No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish. ~Kin Hubbard

I was a dog in a past life. Really. I'll be walking down the street and dogs will do a sort of double take. Like, Hey, I know him. ~William H. Macy

I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. ~Sir Winston Churchill

Cats regard people as warm-blooded furniture. ~Jacquelyn Mitchard

Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole." ~Roger Caras

It's funny how dogs and cats know the inside of folks better than other folks do, isn't it? ~Eleanor H. Porter

Animals are reliable; many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful, and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to. ~Alfred A. Montapert

The difference between friends and pets is that friends we allow into our company, pets we allow into our solitude. ~Robert Brault

All of the animals except for man know that the principle business of life is to enjoy it. ~Samuel Butler

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When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight. ~Khalil Gibran

Perhaps they are not the stars, but rather openings in Heaven where the love of our lost ones pours through and shines down upon us to let us know they are happy. ~Author Unknown

Separation

Your absence has gone through me

Like thread through a needle.

Everything I do is stitched with its color.”

~W.S. Merwin

Every one of us is losing something precious to us. Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. ~Haruki Murakami

Every morning, I wake up and forget just for a second that it happened. But once my eyes open, it buries me like a landslide of sharp, sad rocks. Once my eyes open, I'm heavy, like there's too much gravity on my heart. ~Sarah Ockler

You will lose someone you can’t live without, and your heart will be badly broken, and the bad news is that you never completely get over the loss of your beloved. But this is also the good news. They live forever in your broken heart that doesn’t seal back up. And you come through. It’s like having a broken leg that never heals perfectly—that still hurts when the weather gets cold, but you learn to dance with the limp.

~Anne Lamott

Every evening I turn my worries over to God. He's going to be up all night anyway. ~Mary C. Crowley

She was no longer wrestling with the grief, but could sit down with it as a lasting companion and make it a sharer in her thoughts. ~George Eliot

We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey. ~Kenji Miyazawa

Memory is a way of holding onto the things you love, the things you are, the things you never want to lose. ~From the television show, The Wonder Years

If you're going through hell, keep going. ~Winston Churchill

We acquire the strength we have overcome. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

Time is a physician that heals every grief. ~Diphilus

No one ever really dies as long as they took the time to leave us with fond memories. ~Chris Sorensen

The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost. ~Arthur Schopenhauer

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out. ~Lou Reed