Quotes about Connection

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? - an enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined to strengthen each other, to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories

We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours.

There is no escaping the fact that want of sympathy condemns us to a corresponding stupidity.

The secret of our emotions never lies in the bare object, but in its subtle relations to our own past.

Love gives insight, Maggie, and insight often gives foreboding. Listen to me, let me supply you with books; do let me see you sometimes, be your brother and teacher, as you said at Lorton. It is less wrong that you should see me than that you should be committing this long suicide.

Perhaps I feel about you as the artist does about the scene over which his soul has brooded with love: he would tremble to see it confided to other hands; he would never believe that it could bear for another all the meaning and the beauty it bears for him.

In their death they were not divided.

There, now, father, you won't work in it till it's all easy, said Eppie, and you and me can mark out the beds, and make holes and plant the roots. It'll be a deal livelier at the Stone-pits when we've got some flowers, for I always think the flowers can see us and know what we're talking about. And I'll have a bit o' rosemary, and bergamot, and thyme, because they're so sweet-smelling; but there's no lavender only in the gentlefolks' gardens, I think.

The young ones have always a claim on the old to help them forward.

If we could hear the squirrel's heartbeat, the sound of the grass growing, we should die of that roar.

What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?