“Dogs, Angels and Heaven”
“I heard somebody define heaven once,” she said, looking at Pearl, “as a place where, when you get there, all the dogs you ever loved run to greet you.” (Robert B. Parker)
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“Dogs are minor angels, and I don’t mean that facetiously. They love unconditionally, forgive immediately, are the truest of friends, willing to do anything that makes us happy, et cetera. If we attributed some of those qualities to a person we would say they are special. If they had ALL of them, we would call them angelic. But because it’s “only” a dog, we dismiss them as sweet or funny but little more. However when you think about it, what are the things that we most like in another human being? Many times those qualities are seen in our dogs every single day — we’re just so used to them that we pay no attention.” (Jonathan Carroll)
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“Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in.” (Mark Twain)
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“My grandfather used to say that if God did not allow a man to be reunited with his dogs in the next life He was no God worth worshipping; that if a dog did not have a soul, then nothing had.” (John Connolly, The Wrath of Angels: A Charlie Parker Thriller)
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“Dogs and angels are not very far apart.” (Charles Bukowski)
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“Having a dog or cat will open your heart. Reading a book will open your mind. Having both a pet & a book … absolute heaven.” (Mark Rubinstein)
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