Quotes About Connection

It is not always events that have touched us personally that affect us the most.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one.

Love is this and love is that; man is born to love; he is only alive when he is in the presence of a woman he loves or should love.

To talk to a stranger is like talking to the stars: it doesn't commit you.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily

man is born to love; he is only alive when he is in the presence of a woman he loves or should love. I

What all these victims need above all is to know that they are not alone; that we are not forgetting them, that when their voices are stifled we shall lend them ours, that while their freedom depends on ours, the quality of our freedom depends on theirs.

How do I find God?' you ask. I do not know how, but I do know where-in my fellow man.

Love is worth as much as prayer. Sometimes more.

Man walks the moon but his soul remains riveted to earth. Once upon a time it was the opposite.

Human suffering anywhere concerns men and women everywhere. That

God does not create other people so we could turn our backs on them.

Wasn't forgetfulness a gift of the gods to the ancient world? Without it. Life would be intolerable, wouldn't it? Yes, but the Jews live by other rules. For a Jew, nothing is more important than memory. He is bound to his origins by memory. It is memory that connects him to Abraham, Moses and Rabbi Akiva.

It is in man that God must be loved, because the love of God goes through the love of man. Whoever loves God exclusively, namely excluding man, reduces his love and his God to the level of abstraction. Beshtian Hasidism denies all abstraction.

I'm going to teach you the art of distinguishing between day and night. Always look at a window, and failing that look into the eyes of a man. If you see a face, any face, then you can be sure that night has succeeded day. For, believe me, night has a face." Then

You walk out in the evening with a woman, you tell her that she is beautiful and you love her, and twenty centuries hear what you are saying.

One must not rely on the dead," he said. "One must rely on the living—and on God who gives life to the living.

I cannot cure everybody. I cannot help everybody. But to tell the lonely person that I am not far or different from that lonely person, that I am with him or her, that's all I think we can do and we should do.

The silence of two people is deeper than the silence of one. Involuntarily I began to talk.

My father, an enlightened spirit, believed in man. My grandfather, a fervent Hasid, believed in God. The one taught me to speak, the other to sing. Both loved stories. And when I tell mine, I hear their voices. Whispering from beyond the silenced storm, they are what links the survivor to their memory.

His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered. I

Man comes closer to God through the questions he asks Him" - Moshie

Oh, to recover faith! And the innocence of before. To live in the moment, to hold desire and fulfillment in one's grasp, to fuse with someone else, with oneself; to become infinity

Then he smiled. I shall always remember that smile. What world did it come from?