Quotes About Connection

You don't have to speak at all— I know what you'd say… - Laura

were we two following our widely parted roads towards one point in the mysterious future, at which we were to meet once more?

They have tried to make me forget everything, Walter; but I remember Marian, and I remember you'--in that moment, I, who had long since given her my love, gave her my life, and thanked God that it was mine to bestow on her.

Marian and I avoided all further reference to that other subject, which by her consent and mine, was not to be mentioned between us yet. It was not the less present in our minds--it was rather kept alive in them by the restraint which we had imposed on ourselves

Observe, dear lady, what a light is dying on the trees! Does it penetrate your heart, as it penetrates mine?

the thought of you, my dears, mounts like blood to my head...

It is plain that she has loved him, throughout the estrangement between them.

Bir zamanlar bizi birbirimize baÄŸlayan o baÄŸ tamam?yla koptu mu? Sanki birbirimizi hiç tan?mam???z ve sevmemiÅŸiz gibi onun yazg?s?n?, iyisiyle kötüsüyle, hiçbir ÅŸekilde paylaÅŸamayacak m?y?m art?k ben?

If they show themselves disposed to accept their proper position I will assist them to start virtuously in life by a present of one hundred pounds each. This sum I authorize you to pay them, on their personal application, with the necessary acknowledgment of receipt; and on the express understanding that the transaction, so completed, is to be the beginning and the end of my connection with them. The

Among the hundred thousand mysterious influences which a man exercises over a woman who loves him, I doubt if there is any more irresistible to her than the influence of his voice. I am not one of those women who shed tears on the smallest provocation: it is not in my temperament, I suppose. But when I heard that little natural change in his tone my mind went back (I can't say why) to the happy day when I first owned that I loved him. I burst out crying.

You were restless? I was thinking of you.

The past is not dead. Indeed, it is often not even past.

Civilizations are the generations of the racial soul. As family-rearing, and then writing, bound the generations together, handing down the lore of the dying to the young, so print and commerce and a thousand ways of communication may bind the civilizations together, and preserve for future cultures all that is of value for them in our own. Let us, before we die, gather up our heritage, and offer it to our children.

It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The present is merely the past rolled up and concentrated in this second of time.As quoted in The Gentle Philosopher Will Durant

A sense of humor, being born of perspective, bears a near kinship to philosophy; each is the soul of the other.

It would be better to abandon our overrapid development of the intellect, and to aim rather at training the heart and the affections

What immortality means to me now is that we are all parts of a whole, cells in the body of life; that the death of the part is the life of the whole; and that though as individuals we pass away, yet the whole is made forever different by what we have done and been.

Great men speak to us only so far as we have ears and souls to hear them; only so far as we have in us the roots, at least, of that which flowers out in them.

I considered that my nature and disposition had, as it were, a kind of kinship and connection with truth.

I am exceedingly anxious to meet and talk with you, whether you think yourself one of His works, or a particle drawn, of necessity, from eternal and necessary matter. Whatever you are, you are a worthy part of that great whole which I do not understand.82

If tribal thinking is original sin, then story is prayer. At its best, it reminds us that, beneath our many differences, we remain beasts of one species.

There is nothing he enjoys so much as a good walk, which he calls "the most social of exercises.

Prayer? I asked. Of course. If you're not connected to the source of all knowledge, you're no better than a telephone when one of these lines is down. He gestured with his stick at the wires above our heads.

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