Quotes About Connection

closed my eyes and diverted my mind from the awful sounds by thinking about language. I'd always thought of it as a friend. It's guided me through life and shown me new directions. Each new language I learned added to me. I became richer. But a language you don't know, sir, that is one mean, unfriendly son of a bitch. It's rude and secretive and it pushes you away, keeps you on the outside. And that's where I am now, on the outside.

the overriding thought in my mind is that I didn't have the foresight to say goodbye or thank you to the people I love. That sounds corny, I know, but what's wrong with corny? It has its place.

post hoc, propter hoc

But quietly now, rather movingly, Strange was making his plea: "Christ knows why, Lewis, but he'll always put himself out a bit for you. Did you realize that?

Homesickness springs from the isolation of the soul from its surroundings.

It is wise to listen, not to me but to the Word, and to confess that all things are one.

One thunderbolt strikes root through everything

Although the Word is common to all, many live as if they had a private understanding of their own

Sleeping people live in their own world; only those who are awake have a world in common.

When I finish an album and I find myself listening to it in the car, because it makes me feel a certain way, that's the time to try to let other people know about it.

Never say a humorous thing to a man who does not possess humor. He will always use it in evidence against you.

Once you get people laughing, they're listening and you can tell them almost anything.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

I would like, at the end, to be able to see the tree outside the bedroom window, to sit or lie on the flower-filled sun porch, ... to feel that the children and friends, if they wanted to visit, could come to the place of beauty that [we] had shaped.

Solitude, the very condition which sustained the individual against and beyond his society, has become technically impossible.

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.

Hidup itu ialah kelancaran hubungan diri dengan luar diri.

Come, let us make love deathless, thou and I.

Music happens to be an art form that transcends language.

May you hear my feeble voice! It will tell you that here below there is a heart full of the memory of you.

everything we value in this life is inseparably connected with the future.

Philosophy arose out of religion,