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“Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Dog #Prayer #Heart
“Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Dog #Moving #Past
“Hope is the destination that we seek. Love is the road that leads to hope. Courage is the motor that drives us. We travel out of darkness into faith.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Love #Darkness #Destination
“Bunny slippers remind me of who I am.You can't get a swelled head if you wear bunny slippers. You can't lose your sense of perspective and start acting like a star or a rich lady if you keep on wearing bunny slippers. Besides, bunny slippers give me confidence because they're so jaunty. They make a statement; they say, 'Nothing the world does to me can ever get me so far down that I can't be silly and frivolous.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Stars #Silly #Who I Am
“There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the night... Because ultimately we'll never encounter anything more terrifying than the monster among us. Hell is where we make it.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Fear #Night #Devil
“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Happiness #Choices #Happiness Is A Choice
“Intuition is seeing with the soul.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Soul #Intuition #Instinct
“Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Dog #Pet #Wonderful
“No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself. I also suspect that we cherish dogs because their unblemished souls make us wish - consciously or unconsciously - that we were as innocent as they are, and make us yearn for a place where innocence is universal and where the meanness, the betrayals, and the cruelties of this world are unknown.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Relationship #Dog #Betrayal
“In self-defense and in defense of the innocent, cowardice is the only sin.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Self #Defense #Sin
“The more you expect from life, the more your expectations will be fulfilled. By laughing, you do not use up your laughter, but increase your store of it. The more you love, the more you will be loved. The more you give, the more you will receive. Life proves that truth every hour, every day. And life continues to surprise.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Laughter #Giving #Laughing
“No one's life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for hope, for love, to marvel at the mystery of existence, to be ravished by the beauty of the world, to seek truth and meaning, to acquire wisdom, and by our treatment of others to brighten the corner where we are.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Joy #World #Mystery
“The less depth a belief system has, the greater the fervency with which its adherents embrace it. The most vociferous, the most fanatical are those whose cobbled faith is founded on the shakiest grounds.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Depth #Belief #Embrace
“All human lives are so profoundly and intricately entwined-those dead, those living, those generations yet to come-that the fate of all is the fate of each, and the hope of humanity rests in every heart and in every pair of hands.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Heart #Fate #Hands
“If dogs talked, one of them would be president by now. Everybody likes dogs.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Dog #President #Would Be
“But once an idea for a novel seizes a writer...well, itâ€™s like an inner fire that at first warms you and makes you feel good but then begins to eat you alive, burn you up from within. You canâ€™t just walk away from the fire; it keeps burning. The only way to put it out is to write the book.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Book #Writing #Fire
“It's only life. We all get through it.”
-- Dean Koontz
“In each little life, we can see great truth and beauty, and in each little life we glimpse the way of all things in the universe. If we alow ourselves to be enchanted by the beauty of the ordinary, we begin to see that all things extraordinary.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Glimpse #Ordinary #Littles
“If we were always conscious of the fact that people precious to us are frighteningly mortal, hanging not even by a thread, but by a wisp of gossamer, perhaps we would be kinder to them and more grateful for the love and friendship they give to us.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Grateful #People #Giving
“The heart is an artist that paints over what profoundly disturbs it, leaving on the canvas a less dark, less sharp version of the truth.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Truth #Heart #Dark
“Given enough time, you could convince yourself that loneliness was something better, that it was solitude, the ideal condition for reflection, even a kind of freedom. Once you were thus convinced, you were foolish to open the door and let anyone in, not all the way in. You risked the hard-won equilibrium, that tranquility that you called peace”
-- Dean Koontz

#Loneliness #Reflection #Doors
“When a liar became too skilled at deception, he could lose the ability to discern truth, and could himself be more easily deceived.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Liars #Lying #Deception
“I think the world is full of evil people. I think in some ways we're in more danger now than before.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Thinking #People #Evil
“The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Hands #Pieces #Literature
“In this world only the paranoid survive.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Wise #World #This World
“In spite of where we were, how we had gotten here and why we had come, I felt that at this moment of our lives, this place was exactly where we belonged. We were not drifting but rising, rising toward something right and of significance.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Rising #Moments #Spite
“Authors of so-called 'literary' fiction insist that action, like plot, is vulgar and unworthy of a true artist. Don't pay any attention to misguided advice of that sort. If you do, you will very likely starve trying to live on your writing income. Besides, the only writers who survive the ages are those who understand the need for action in a novel.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Writing #Artist #Advice
“I am no theologian. I would not be surprised, however, if Heaven proved to be a cozy kitchen, where delicious treats appeared in the oven and in the refrigerator whenever you wanted them, and where the cupboards were full of good books.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Book #Heaven #Kitchen
“Do as little harm to others as you can; make any sacrifice for your true friends; be responsible for yourself and ask nothing of others; and grab all the fun you can. Don't give much thought to yesterday, don't worry about tomorrow, live in the moment, and trust that your existence has meaning even when the world seems to be all blind chance and chaos. When life lands a hammer blow in your face, do your best to respond to the hammer as if it had been a cream pie.”
-- Dean Koontz

#Fun #True Friend #Sacrifice
“One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us”
-- Dean Koontz

#Dog #Evoke #Tenderness

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