Quotes about Connection

The reduction of the universe to a single being, the expansion of a single being even to God, that is love.

Love each other well and always. There is nothing else but that in the world: love for each other.

The supreme happiness of life consists in the conviction that one is loved; loved for one's own sake... loved in spite of one's self.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves — say rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Destiny, with its mysterious and fatal patience, was slowly bringing these two beings near each other, fully charged and all languishing with the stormy electricities of passion.

Although this detail has no connection whatever with the real substance of what we are about to relate, it will not be superfluous, if merely for the sake of exactness in all points, to mention here the various rumors and remarks which had been in circulation about him from the very moment when he arrived in the diocese. True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and

This is at the beginning of my book: When a man is out of sight, it is not too long before he is out of mind. Victor Hugo

There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look.

Why must people kneel down to pray? If I really wanted to pray I'll tell you what I'd do. I'd go out into a great big field all alone or in the deep, deep woods and I'd look up into the sky—up—up—up—into that lovely blue sky that looks as if there was no end to its blueness. And then I'd just feel a prayer.

Kindred spirits are not so scarce as I used to think. It's splendid to find out there are so many of them in the world.

True friends are always together in spirit.