Quotes About Connection

Ma forse in ogni caso è difficile rimanere amici per tutta la vita. In realtà, a un certo momento, ognuno di noi cambia, diviene diverso, alcuni vanno avanti, altri rimangono fermi, e insomma ci incamminiamo in direzioni opposte, sicché non c'è più incontro, non c'è più nulla in comune. [Quaderno proibito]

Our task must be to free ourselves... by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and it's beauty.

Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

However rare true love may be, it is less so than true friendship.

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.

A person starts to live when he can live outside himself.

All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Dancers are the athletes of God.

I see my life in terms of music.

You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.

Strange is our situation here on Earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose. From the standpoint of daily life, however, there is one thing we do know: that man is here for the sake of other men - above all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness depends.

Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts.

Our separation from each other is an optical illusion.

The most important question a person can ask is, Is the Universe a friendly place?

But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy.

Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Rejoice with your family in the beautiful land of life.

Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper.

Try and penetrate with our limited means the secrets of nature and you will find that, behind all the descernible laws and connections, there remains something subtle, intangible and inexplicable. Veneration for this force beyond anything that we can comprehend is my religion. To that extent I am, in fact, religious.

Ein Freund ist ein Mensch, der die Melodie deines Herzen kennt und sie dir vorspielt, wenn du sie vergessen hast.

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]

Growth comes through analogy; through seeing how things connect, rather than only seeing how they might be different.

Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?

To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window.