Quotes about Connection

the Golden Thread I. Five Years Later II. A Sight III. A Disappointment IV.

I have loved you all my life!

If I could have known Cicero, and been his friend, and talked with him in his retirement at Tusculum (beau-ti-ful Tusculum l), I could have died contented.

I loved Joe - perhaps for no better reason in those early days than because the dear fellow let me love him

for in natures, as in seas, depth answers unto depth

What constitutes a life well spent, anyway? Love and admiration from your fellow men is all that any one can ask.

We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it...

If you ask, "What is the use of praying?" I answer, "Woe is me if I do not pray!" I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent somewhere. I pray because it is easier to pray than not to pray. It is the soul that prays first: the tongue wags afterwards. It is no small privilege that we have of talking with God, and of laying our troubles upon him so as to feel relieved of them.

Having someone wonder where you are when you don't come home at night is a very old human need.

I, who have no sisters nor brothers, look with some degree of innocent envy on those who may be said to be born to friends...

Her face looked ugly in the attempt to avoid tears; it was an ugliness which bound him to her more than any beauty could have done. It isn't being happy together, he thought as though it were a fresh discovery, that makes one love--it's being unhappy together.

Every testimony is valid because there is someone out there a lot like you.