Eckhart Tolle Quotes

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contained, I stand and look at them long and long.

Often people who are wonderful with animals aren't always terribly good with human beings.

All those animals that were in the cages, I would spend a lot of time in those cages with the animals in-between shots, just hanging out, because I prefer animals to humans. If I get an opportunity to be with them, I'll usually take it.

When you write about animals, of course, you are really writing about the people who love and live with them. Animals mirror and reveal us. Dogs in particular are often reflections of us, and what we need them to be.

Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.

There ain't a man livin' who hasn't talked to his dog.

When we have relationships with animals, we often make up who they are.

When I'm around animals, I don't pay attention to people.

Animals have always left me with a curiosity about human nature. I trust animals more than most people.

Animals give us their constant, unjaded faces, and we burden them with our bodies and civilized ordeals.

The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be.

Anytime you work with animals, you begin to see more humanity in them.

Animals make us Human.

I think I could turn and live with animals, they are so placid and self-contain'd, I stand and look at them long and long.

If dogs could talk it would take a lot of the fun out of owning one.

I'm really an animal guy. I express myself in different ways as an animal.

You can draw the character out of pets, and you can make them your friends, but they are animals, and they have to be allowed to live the lives of animals.

Investigators have discovered that dogs can laugh, which can't be too big of a surprise.

In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interact better with animals than people. Animals are direct, not duplicitous.

The dog commends himself to our favor by affording play to our propensity for mastery.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

From the very dawn of time until now and well into the future... human-animal companionship is at the very core of our instincts not only for mutual survival, but mutually rewarding relationships.

And then I got to go to Singapore and play with some orangutans, and the mom was letting me hold the baby. They just look at you with these big eyes, so sweet and open. Like the soul is right there - it almost scares you, you know?

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.