Garth Stein · 304 pages
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“There is no dishonor in losing the race,” Don said. “There is only dishonor in not racing because you are afraid to lose.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“we are the creators of our own destiny. Be it through intention or ignorance, our successes and our failures have been brought on by none other than ourselves.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“Yet for every peak there is a valley.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“the race is long—to finish first, first you must finish.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“We had come so close to greatness. We had smelled it, and it smelled like roast pig. Everybody likes the smell of roast pig. But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“But I totally understood that what filled us with energy could be irritating to someone else,”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“To remember is to leave the present.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“Here’s why I will be a good person. Because I listen. I cannot speak, so I listen very well. I never interrupt, I never change the course of the conversation with a comment of my own. People, if you pay attention to them, change the direction of one another’s conversations constantly. It’s like having a passenger in your car who suddenly grabs the steering wheel and turns you down a side street. Learn to listen! I beg of you. Pretend you are a dog like me and listen to other people rather than steal their stories.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“We are the creators of our own destiny.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“Your car goes where your eyes go. Simply another way of saying that you make your own destiny.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“We all play by the same rules. But some people spend more time reading those rules and figuring out how to make them work in their behalf.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“But I wondered why they had waited for Eve’s illness to make themselves available for companionship.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“With your mind power, your determination, your instinct, and the experience as well, you can fly very high.” —”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“We are the creators of our own destiny,”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“Knowing that another path might have been easier for him to travel, but that it couldn’t possibly have offered a more satisfying conclusion.”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
“being alone is not the same as being lonely?”
― Garth Stein, quote from Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog
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