Quotes About Connection

Je kan aan dieren erg veel liefde kwijt. Dieren zullen nooit zeggen: 'Weet je wat? Ik ga alleen wonen. Ik kom nog wel 'ns langs om je onderbroeken te wassen.

Ze glimlachte de lach die ik zo goed kende en die nooit uit m'n geest zou verdwijnen. 'Dat gaat wel,' zei ze. 'Met mij ook,' zei ik. We logen, geloof ik, allebei.

Eenarmigen moeten elkaar helpen bij het applaudisseren.

Love wasn't just a soft, easy thing of the senses. It was hard, deep, austere.

Droom: dat de hele mensheid bij elkaar komt, in een soort honderdduizendvoudig Feyenoord-stadion, en gezamenlijk begint te huilen van 'zie ons hier zitten'.

maar ik hou eigenlijk nog meer van een groep woorden die zich samen plotseling bijzonder intiem gaan voelen en zeggen: laat ons nou maar altijd bij elkaar, er hoeft er geen meer bij te komen.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and return to us as results.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow-men; and along those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects.

Genius all over the world stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round.

Friendship at first sight, like love at first sight, is said to be the only truth.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

He was just head over ears in love, with a young woman as near as his hand and as remote as a star, and for the moment it was enough to be where she was.

Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part.

Children have a more restricted and yet a more intense feeling for nature than grown-ups.

Incapable of communicating himself to others, incapable of breaking out of his isolation, doomed to remain the mere actor of his life, the deputy of his own ego—all that any human being can know of another is a mere symbol, a symbol of an ego that remains beyond our grasp, possessing no more value than that of a symbol; and all that can be told is the symbol of a symbol, a symbol at a second, third, nth remove, asking for representation in the true double sense of the word.

One never reaches home,' she said. 'But where paths that have an affinity for each other intersect, the whole world looks like home, for a time.

One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.

It is not our purpose to become each other it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is.

As a commentary makes no sense without the text which it is expounding, so also the Confessions make no sense without the Bible.

As above, so below, as within, so without, as the universe, so the soul…

As above, so below. As within, so without. Originated by Hermes TRISMEGISTUS!

That which is below is like that which is above, and that which is above is like that which is below, to perform the miracles of one only thing.

The present issues from the past, and the future from the present. Everything is made one by this continuity. Time is like a circle, where all the points are so linked that one cannot say where it begins or ends, for all points precede and follow one another for ever.