Money Quote by Douglas Coupland

“most dogs seemed contented enough, and often seemed rather happier than the humans attached to them.”

— Alexander McCall Smith

“What if virtue, work, all our striving and sweat was simply not enough to make the animal man a happy creature?”

— Darrin M. McMahon

“Was she happy? I suppose she was happy. She had, after all, fulfilled a dog's most urgent need, she had managed to bestow her…

— Anonymous

“It is commonplace, and true, to point out that animals are happier than people because they live entirely in the present.”

— Linda Bender

“They went on living in poverty, though they were no longer in need, but they were set in their ways, and they looked on…

— Albert Camus

“What they were all afraid of saying, was that happiness is dirt cheap. You can have it for nothing. Beauty.”

— Virginia Woolf

“Love the animals: God gave them the rudiments of thought and an untroubled joy.”

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“People had no more choice than animals about the burdens they carried.”

— Cynthia Voigt

“They couldn’t keep me company as humans, so they kept me company as animals,”

— J.K. Rowling

“I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are just…

— Mark Twain

“Happy are those who value what they have, when they have it.”

— Tammy Rosenfeld

“And they lived ever after, whether they were happy about it or not.”

— Allyse Near