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Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life--and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.
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Dean Koontz |
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Grief can destroy you --or focus you. You can decide a relationship was all for nothing if it had to end in death, and you alone. OR you can realize that every moment of it had more meaning than you dared to recognize at the time, so much meaning it scared you, so you just lived, just took for granted the love and laughter of each day, and didn't allow yourself to consider the sacredness of it. But when it's over and you're alone, you begin..
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grief
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Dean Koontz |
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Because God is never cruel, there is a reason for all things. We must know the pain of loss; because if we never knew it, we would have no compassion for others, and we would become monsters of self-regard, creatures of unalloyed self-interest. The terrible pain of loss teaches humility to our prideful kind, has the power to soften uncaring hearts, to make a better person of a good one.
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understanding
loss
god
purpose
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Dean Koontz |
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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.
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dogs
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Dean Koontz |
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Not one day in anyone's life is an uneventful day, no day without profound meaning, no matter how dull and boring it might seem, no matter whether you are a seamstress or a queen, a shoeshine boy, or a movie star, a renowned philosopher or a Down's-syndrome child. Because in every day of your life, there are opportunities to perform little kindnesses for others, both by conscious acts of will and unconscious example. Each smallest act of ki..
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Dean Koontz |
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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..
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relationships
love
pets
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Dean Koontz |
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From time to time, I do consider that I might be mad. Like any self-respecting lunatic, however, I am always quick to dismiss any doubts about my sanity.
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Dean Koontz |
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Dogs, lives are short, too short, but you know that going in. You know the pain is coming, you're going to lose a dog, and there's going to be great anguish, so you live fully in the moment with her, never fail to share her joy or delight in her innocence, because you can't support the illusion that a dog can be your lifelong companion. There's such beauty in the hard honesty of that, in accepting and giving love while always aware that it ..
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dogs
dog-lover
loyalty
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Dean Koontz |
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Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.
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stars
koontz
possibilities
midnight
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Dean Koontz |
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Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.
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Dean Koontz |
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If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.
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Dean Koontz |
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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.
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Dean Koontz |
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There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.
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Dean Koontz |
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Once you have had a wonderful dog, a life without one, is a life diminished.
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Dean Koontz |
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When we hope, we usually hope for the wrong thing.
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Dean Koontz |
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Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.
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Dean Koontz |
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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.
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introspective
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Dean Koontz |
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I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.
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reason
trust
difference
together
different
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Dean Koontz |
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We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.
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Dean Koontz |
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3a53c6b
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On the Road that I have taken, one day walking I awaken, amazed to see where I've come, where I'm going, where I'm from.
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Dean Koontz |
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No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.
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Dean Koontz |
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Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.
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Dean Koontz |
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When you have dogs, you witness their uncomplaining acceptance of suffering, their bright desire to make the most of life in spite of the limitations of age and disease, their calm awareness of the approaching end when their final hours come. They accept death with a grace that I hope I will one day be brave enough to muster.
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dogs
life
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Dean Koontz |
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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
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solitude
loneliness
tranquility
reflection
peace
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Dean Koontz |
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When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
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inspirational
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Dean Koontz |
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Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.
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inspirational
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Dean Koontz |
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Being alone can be good. It's easy to find peace alone. But sometimes, being alone is a king of death.
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death
life
peace
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Dean Koontz |
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She never had much in this life, but with the simplest things, she made her corner of the world as beautiful as any king's palace. We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.
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heart
life
love
material-possessions
stormy-lewellyn
simplicity
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Dean Koontz |
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The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. --C. G. Jung
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Dean Koontz |
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Each smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. --This Momentous Day, H.R. White
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Dean Koontz |
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You've always been stone solid until now, like Joe Friday with no Y chromosome. Now you're Nancy Drew on a sugar rush.
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Dean Koontz |