Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog QUOTES

2 " A person can learn a lot from a dog, even a loopy one like ours. Marley taught me about living each day with unbridled exuberance and joy, about seizing the moment and following your heart. He taught me to appreciate the simple things-a walk in the woods, a fresh snowfall, a nap in a shaft of winter sunlight. And as he grew old and achy, he taught me about optimism in the face of adversity. Mostly, he taught me about friendship and selflessness and, above all else, unwavering loyalty. "

― John Grogan , Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

4 " In a dog's life, some plaster would fall, some cushions would open, some rugs would shred. Like any relationship, this one had its costs. They were costs we came to accept and balance against the joy and amusement and protection and companionship he gave us. "

― John Grogan , Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

6 " It's just the most amazing thing to love a dog, isn't it? It makes our relationships with people seem as boring as a bowl of oatmeal. "

― John Grogan , Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

8 " Animal lovers are a special breed of humans, generous of spirit, full of empathy, perhaps a little prone to sentimentality, and with hearts as big as a cloudless sky "

― John Grogan , Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

10 " A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary? "

― John Grogan , Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

12 " He taught us the art of unqualified love. How to give it, how to accept it. Where there is that, most other pieces fall into place. "

― John Grogan , Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

14 " 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 , Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

16 " In a world of bosses, you are your own master "

― John Grogan , Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

18 " Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look. "

― John Grogan , Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog

20 " Standing out there in th dark, I felt many different things. One of them was pride in my fellow Americans, ordinary people who rose to the moment, knowing it was their last. One was humility, for I was alive and untouched by the horrors of that day, free to continue my happy life as a husband and father and writer. In the lonely blackness, I could almost taste the finiteness of life and thus it's preciousness. We take it for granted, but it is fragile, precarious, uncertain able to cease at any instant without notice. I was reminded of what should be obvious but too often is not, that each today, each hour and minute, is worth cherishing. "

― John Grogan , Marley and Me: Life and Love With the World's Worst Dog