A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home Quotes

“Though we are made of memories, we live only in the here and now.”
― Sue Halpern, A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher

“…goodness is ours to dispense. It's a currency that each of us gets to invent and denominate. David's had pictures of Chopin and Keith Richards on it. Mine had my dog.”
― Sue Halpern, A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher

“The unasked-for gift of being with people at the end of their lives...is a simple but profound appreciation of the here and now of life itself.”
― Sue Halpern, A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher

“...the reward for getting through life is getting life itself.”
― Sue Halpern, A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher

“If we are lucky, we get to live very long and healthy lives. If we are even luckier, we will be astonished by the sight of blue jays all the way through.”
― Sue Halpern, A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher

“We often talk about "getting out of our comfort zone," but rarely about entering someone else's.”
― Sue Halpern, A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher

“For loving-kindness to be real, for it to have moral value, he observed, it must be practiced with consideration "of the other's distress alone".”
― Sue Halpern, A Dog Walks Into a Nursing Home: Lessons in the Good Life from an Unlikely Teacher