Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole.
You know, I've held women and babies and jewels and money, but nothing will ever feel as good as holding that Cup.
I've never experienced the love I have for my daughter.
I knew I was going to love my daughter, but I had no idea how much I would love her.
What I learned from my kids is that the greatest joy in life is not from material trappings, power, or visibility. The greatest joy comes from your kids. Nothing is even close to my kids in terms of bringing me joy.
Lifetime dogs intersect with our lives with particular impact; they're dogs we love in especially powerful, sometimes inexplicable, ways.
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
No book of mine is complete without a dog.
There is more excitement, more amazement when a first is born. No subsequent babies can have that impact.
The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.
But at the same time that the experience is pulling you apart, it's also bonding you. You have this joint venture! You both made this baby. And that's the thing I still can't get over.
The joy I get while listening to my daughter, Poonthendrel, speak is incomparable. I've listened to several other kids speak but have never enjoyed it as much as I have enjoyed listening to my daughter.
Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.
Children are the anchors that hold a mother to life.
I absolutely love my son and family - they are my life and always come first.
Every joy is beyond all others.
These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps
I owe baseball all that I have and much of what I hope to have. Baseball made my entrance to the film industry immeasurably easier than I could have made it alone. To the greatest game in the world I shall be eternally in debt.
Thy love is singular when all thy delight is in Jesus Christ and in no other thing finds joy and comfort.
I knew it was going to be the most extraordinary thing in my life, but how powerful it is, you can never know until you have a baby.
Motherhood is priced Of God, at price no man may dare To lessen or misunderstand.
To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare.
The most amazing feeling I feel Words can't describe what I'm feeling for real Maybe I paint the sky blue My greatest creation was you.
Having children showed me a whole different kind of love that I had never known. It was something that had always been missing. Complete love. I would die for them.
Nothing is more precious than life... especially the life of your child.
