A Heartbeat at My Feet Quotes

“If the fear won’t go, it read, you’ll just have to do it afraid.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“Love who you were sent to love. That’s it, my friend. That, quite simply, is all you need to know.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“life seems so long when you’re in it. And then you die, and you see that it was all but a heartbeat. One powerful, wonderful heartbeat.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“adopt his larger philosophy—for her, that was a dark path, one she’d already flirted with. But what if, for just a summer, she tried living in the moment? What if she overthought nothing and simply, as Hugo said, bounced along? “Fair enough,” she said eventually, offering her glass for a refill. Hugo”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“mean is, we come into the world alone, and we bounce off each other and interact, but existentially we are responsible for our own journeys. There is no outside force organizing us.” Again, he shrugged. “I don’t need to attach meaning to much anymore—that’s all. I cannot do that again.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“Ghosts are not to be feared, my friend. They are simply people who could not leave this world because their hearts were not quite finished with it.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“Perhaps that’s why humans need dogs, eh, boy? We have it backward. You don’t need us as much as we need you, because you show us the way.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“We are experts at love. If you’ve known a dog, you’ve likely gathered this already. When we love somebody, it’s forever.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“All animals understand the nuance of nature; only humans tend to be skeptics of such ordinary magic.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“Human affairs, you see, are sometimes lost on those of us who know what is actually important.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“Ah, Cicero, life seems so long when you’re in it. And then you die, and you see that it was all but a heartbeat. One powerful, wonderful heartbeat.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“All any of us shall carry with us, when this life finally ends, is the love we had, tucked deep within our traveling souls.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“Love whoever you were sent to love. That’s the meaning of life.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“what Sophocles said: One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life. And that word is love.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“loyalty is nothing short of a dog’s driving life force, an overwhelming blend of love and duty and purpose that shapes canine existence. It’s powerful stuff,”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“loyalty is nothing short of a dog’s driving life force, an overwhelming blend of love and duty and purpose that shapes canine existence. It’s powerful stuff, I tell you. And certamente, I am quite sure that my undying”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“There was so much I didn’t see,” he murmured. “Why is death required for such clarity?”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“Have you ever met a person who, while regarding another, makes them feel absolutely seen? Such people are rare, indeed.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“Dogs do die of grief, my friend, quite readily. Our hearts beat so fully for those we love that sometimes we cannot carry on without them.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“I sensed it then. His heart beat within him, big and open, his essence traveling right down into his fingerprints. Sometimes a dog simply knows when he has found his match.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet

“A dog, Plato once said, has the soul of a philosopher.”
― Kristin Judd, A Heartbeat at My Feet