Have Dog, Will Travel Quotes

“This is the thing...you give everything to raising a guide-dog puppy, but the everything comes from you spirit -- it's your happiness, your wakefulness, your love of life itself. Puppies take this into their hearts like vitamins.”
― Stephen Kuusisto, Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey

“We all face a choice between freedom and grief. The former requires not thinking so much of yourself you forget what road you're on. Modesty is a requirement if you're walking a long way.”
― Stephen Kuusisto, Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey

“What I knew about love I could put in a thimble. It was akin to my knowledge of “red,” for what did I know about it? I knew it was an important color.”
― Stephen Kuusisto, Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey

“We’re lovable in the ordinary.”
― Stephen Kuusisto, Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey

“Empathy, at its core, is knowing how not to hurt each other.”
― Stephen Kuusisto, Have Dog, Will Travel: A Poet's Journey