“If you made the best of it, if you smiled through every storm, the bad things were never as terrible as you expected them to be, and the good things were better than anything you could have wished for yourself.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: smiling, Positivity, Optimism
“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,…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Life, Meaning, kindness
“We're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved... Well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Worthless, Love, Being Loved
“People who go to work every day, make sacrifices to raise families, and get through life without hurting other people if they can help it--those are the real heroes.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Heroes, Family, Work, Sacrifice
“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, amazon.comTagged: Love, Friendships, mortal
“No one can grant you happiness. Happiness is a choice we all have the power to make.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Happiness, Choices, Power, Decisions
“Love is absorbing, related to affection but stronger, full of appreciation for—and delight in—the other person, marked by a desire always to please and benefit her or him, always to smooth the loved one’s way through the roughness of the days and to do everything possible to make her or him feel pro…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Love, affection, Value
“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 pride…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Loss, God, Pain, Learning
“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, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Animals, Pets
“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 lif…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Expectations, Laughter, Love
“The geometry of judgment is a circle. Hate is a snake that turns to consume itself from the tail, a circle that diminishes to a point, then to nothing. Pride is such a snake, and envy, and greed. Love, however, is a hoop, a wheel, that rolls on forever. We are rescued by those whom we have rescued.…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Judgment, Pride, Hate, Love
“Being polite is not only the right way to respond to people but also the easiest. Life is so filled with unavoidable conflict that I see no reason to promote more confrontations.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: polite, Life, Conflict, kindness
“Bad people succeed and good people fail, but that's not the end of the story. Miracles happen that nobody sees, and among us walk heroes who are never recognized, and people live in loneliness because they cannot believe they are loved.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Success, Failure, Miracles, Loneliness, Love
“Each smallest act of kindness, reverberates across great distances and spans of time--affecting lives unknown to the one who’s 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,…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: kindness, Hatred, Evil, Courage
“It will all be better in the end and if it is not better then it must not be the end yet.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: better, Endings, Life
“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 gran…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Grief, Relationships, Love, Life
“Horror changes us, because we can never forget. Cursed with memory. It starts when we're old enough to know what death is and realize that sooner or later we'll lose everyone we love. We're never the same. But somehow we're all right. We go on.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Horror, Memories, Death, Survival
“It's only life. We all get through it. Not all of us complete the journey in the same condition. Along the way, some lose their legs or eyes in accidents or altercations, while others skate through the years with nothing worse to worry about than an occasional bad-hair day.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Life, Accidents, worries
“In tragedy and despair, when an endless night seems to have fallen, hope can be found in the realization that the companion of night is not another night, that the companion of night is day, that darkness always gives way to light, and that death rules only half of creation, life the other half.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Despair, Tragedy, Hope, Death
“Evil itself may be relentless. I will grant you that, but love is relentless too. Friendship is a relentless force. Family is a relentless force. Faith is relentless force. The human spirit is relentless, and the human heart outlasts - and can defeat - even the most relentless force of all, which is…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Evil, Family, Faith, Time, Relentless
“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.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Change, Life, Beliefs
“Although the human heart is selfish and arrogant, so many struggle against their selfishness and learn humility; because of them, as long as there is life, there is hope that beauty lost can be rediscovered, that what has been reviled can be redeemed.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Selfish, beauty, Hope
“The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness is an opportunity for a lost and selfish heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Pets, Love, kindness
“My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Mystery, purpose, Learning, Conflict
“A scar is not always a flaw. Sometimes a scar may be redemption inscribed in the flesh, a memorial to something endured, to something lost.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Scars, Flaws, Loss, Redemption
“What really holds their marriage together are mutual respect of an awesome depth, a shared sense of humor, faith that they were brought together by a force greater than themselves, and a love so unwavering and pure that it is sacred.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Marriage, Respect, Sense of Humor, Love
“There are no explanations for human evil. Only excuses.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Evil, excuses, explanations
“If one's friends do not openly laugh at him, they are not in fact his friends.”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Friends, Friendship, Laughter
“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, amazon.comTagged: Life, Fear, beauty, Wisdom
“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 unb…”— Dean Koontz, amazon.comTagged: Dogs, Pets, innocent, Relationships