Quotes About Unity

In this world we're all travelers on the same ship that has set sail from one unknown port en route to another equally foreign to us; we should treat each other, therefore, with the friendliness due to fellow travelers.

Each of us is more than one person, many people, a proliferation of our one self.

Over the diversely high rooftops the light lets its hands slip away until, in the unity of those same rooftops, the inner shadow of everything emerges.

Al hacer las cosas con otros pierdo, por lo menos una cosa, que es hacer las cosas solo.

Each of us is two, and when two people meet, come into contact or join together, it's rare that the four of them can agree. If the man who dreams in the man who acts is so frequently at odds with him, how can he help but be at odds with the man who acts and the man who dreams in the Other?

Ä°ki kiÅŸiyim ben - ikisi de ortalar?ndaki mesafeyi koruyor, aralar?nda hiçbir baÄŸ olmayan Siyam ikizleri bunlar.

All it takes to be complete is to exist.

Pues bien, la Tierra no es un conjunto de parches ni de parcelas: mantenerla habitable y hermosa es una tarea que sólo puede ser asumida por los hombres en cuanto comunidad mundial, no desde el ventajismo miope de unos contra otros.

De cerca o de lejos, siempre éramos conscientes de nuestro vínculo, del lazo de fuego que nos hacía existir en la calma y en la borrasca.

sin duda sería estupendo que llegásemos a ser iguales

O sea que él debe seguir siendo él y tú tienes que seguir siendo tú.

Of a sudden he felt that fraternity life was the only way to exist at college. How could he have doubted? (126)

Today, the entire country is an immense University.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them - neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Es que, cuando los hombres llevan en la mente un mismo ideal, nada puede incomunicarlos, ni las paredes de una cárcel, ni la tierra de los cementerios, porque un mismo recuerdo, una misma alma, una misma idea, una misma conciencia y dignidad los alienta a todos.

When there is a tendency to compartmentalize the spiritual and make it resident in a certain type of life only, the spiritual is apt gradually to be lost.

I do not like the raw sound of the human voice in unison unless it is under the discipline of music.

Two people can remain in love-- a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism--only if their common desire for each other unites in a greater desire for God.

You remain what you are. - Everything That Rises Must Converge

Two people can remain 'in love'—a phrase made practically useless by stinking romanticism—only if their common desire for each other unites in a greater desire for God—i.e., they do not become satisfied but more desirous together of the supernatural love in union with God.

Everything That Rises Must Converge

Het is misschien monsterlijke hoogmoed, maar de duivel hale me als ik niet evenveel sympathie voor de luizen die een bedelaar opvreten, als voor de bedelaar zelf. Ik ben er trouwens even zeker van dat de mensen evenmin elkaars broeders zijn als de blaadjes in het bos gelijk zijn.: ze worden samen door de wind geteisterd, dat is alles.

The drift away from the Bible has weakened the church.

I have a great relationship with all my brothers. I've got three other ones. There's four boys and two girls. It's a family business.