Quotes about Connection

You are in every line I have ever read.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood.

He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of homes, and up to the windows, and found that everything could yield him pleasure. He had never dreamed of any walk, that anything, could give him so much happiness. (p. 119)

I love these little people; and it is not a slight thing when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

It is no small thing, when they, who are so fresh from God, love us.

I see that I hold a sanctuary in their hearts, and in the hearts of their descendants, generations hence. I see her, an old woman, weeping for me on the anniversary of this day. I see her and her husband, their course done, lying side by side in their last earthly bed, and I know that each was not more honoured and held sacred in the other's soul, than I was in the souls of both.

Family need not be defined merely as those with whom we share blood, but as those for whom we would give our blood.

and memory, however sad, is the best and purest link between this world and a better. But come! I'll tell you a story of another kind.

But, there is one broad sky over all the world, and whether it be blue or cloudy, the same heaven beyond

You are good enough to say so, as a fashion of speech; but, I don't mean any fashion of speech. Indeed, when I say I wish we might be friends, I scarcely mean quite that, either.

the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys.