Quotes About Unity

In the absence of sisters, we find sisters. In the absence of mothers, we find mothers. In the absence of family, you are my family.

Violence merely increases hate . . . adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.' Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

None of us understood that the body is a connected thing.

We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another, and gain instruction that we may all sit down in heaven together.

All things great are wound up with all things little.

It takes all kinds of people to make a world.

Dzi?ki pragnieniu latania, przede wszystkim wznoszenia si?, tancerze stali si?, podobnie jak anio?owie, ogniwem ??cz?cym cz?owieka i Boga, niebo i ziemi?.

To know God and not oneself to be God, to know blessedness and not oneself to enjoy it, is a state of disunity or unhappiness.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Science and industry, and their progress, might turn out to be the most enduring thing in the modern world. Perhaps any speculation about a coming collapse of science and industry is, for the present and for a long time to come, nothing but a dream; perhaps science and industry, having caused infinite misery in the process, will unite the world - I mean condense it into a single unit, though one in which peace is the last thing that will find a home.

we cannot think of any object apart from the possibility of its connexion with other things.

6.45 : To view the world sub specie aeterni is to view it as a whole—a limited whole. Feeling the world as a limited whole—it is this that is mystical.

Just as we cannot think of spatial objects at all apart from space, or temporal objects apart from time, so we cannot think of any object apart from the possibility of its connexion with other things.

Words are the only bread we can really share.

On that long westward morning, all Mexicans still dreamed the same dream. They dreamed of being Mexican. There was no greater mystery.

Families came apart and regrouped, she thought. Like water. In this desert, families were the water.

Ninguém é nada sozinho, somos o nosso comportamento com o outro.

When you talk about love, and family, invariably too you are talking about compassion. This would include the notion that we are all just lumped together, and tolerance is a virtue.

Aw, group hug! No one's a mindless robot anymore. Score!

husband. Richard O'Neill.

I was eventually to become one person, gathered up maybe, during a pause, at a comma.

i didn't know there were different lines of aliveness, and two worlds contained by each other.

There's America, there's the South, and then there's Mississippi.

How incredible it is that in this fragile existence, we should hate and destroy one another.