Quotes About Connection

Jesus, Mary, Muhammad and Vishnu, how good to see you Richard Parker!

We were, literally and figuratively, in the same boat.

There are many examples of animals coming to surprising living arrangements...where an animal takes a human being or another animal to be one of it's kind.

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches.

It is true that those we meet can change us

Memory is a glue: it attaches you to everything, even to what you don't like.

We are random animals. That is who we are, and we have only ourselves, nothing more-there is no greater relationship. Long before Darwin, a priest lucid in his madness encountered four chimpanzees on a forlorn island in Africa and hit upon a great truth: We are risen apes, not fallen angels.

He smiled. "You already are, Piscine—in your heart. Whoever meets Christ in good faith is a Christian. Here in Munnar you met Christ.

If you take two steps towards God," he used to tell me, "God runs to you!

You already are, Piscine--in your heart. Whoever meets Christ in good faith is a Christian. Here in Munnar you met Christ.

On a day when I estimated it was my mothers birthday, I sang 'Happy Birthday' to her out loud.

It felt good to bring my forehead to the ground. Immediately it felt like a deeply religious contact.

To lose a brother is to lose someone with whom you can share the experience of growing old, who is supposed to bring you a sister-in-law and nieces and nephews, creatures to people the tree of your life and give it new branches. To lose your father is to lose the one whose guidance and help you seek, who supports you like a tree trunk supports its branches. To lose your mother, well, that is like losing the sun above you. It

They were like curmudgeonly old friends who would never admit that they liked me yet came round to see me all the time. The

Whereas before the road, the sea, the trees, the airm the sun all spoke differently to me, now they spoke one language od unity. Tree took account of road, which was aware of air, which was mindful of sea, which shares things with sun. Every element lived in harmonious relation with its neighbor, and all was with and kin. I knelt a mortal; I arose an immortal. I felt like that centre of a small circle coinciding with the centre of a much larger one. Batman met Allah

I just want to love God.

We loved our son like the sea loves an island, always surrounding him with our arms, always touching him and crashing upon his shore with our care and concern. When he was gone, the sea had only itself to contemplate.

A part of me did not want Richard Parker to die at all, because if he died I would be left alone with despair, a foe even more formidable than a tiger.

To remember friendship is to recall those conversations that it seemed a sin to break off: the ones that made the sacrifice of the following day a trivial one.

It's surprising to me how many of my friends send Christmas cards, or holiday cards, including my atheist and secular friends.

What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence.

If it's going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it's not a world that I want to live in.

The prefect evening...lying down on the couch beside the bookcase and reading himself sleepy...Jim lying opposite him at the other end of the couch, also reading; the two of them absorbed in their books yet so completely aware of each other's presence.

What's so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn't any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?