Quotes about Connection

A man must not hold himself aloof from the things which his friends and community have at heart if he would be liked.

One learns people through the heart, not through the eyes or the intellect.

Australasian's custom of speaking of England as home. It was always pretty to hear it, and often it was said in an unconsciously caressing way that made it touching; in a way which transmuted a sentiment into an embodiment, and made one seem to see Australasia as a young girl stroking mother England's old gray head.

The grave of Adam! How touching it was, here in a land of strangers, far away from home, & friends, & all who cared for me thus to discover the grave of a blood relation. True, a distant one, but still a relation.

We were building several lines of railway, and our line from Camelot to London was already finished and in operation.

Maybe just being open to things being connected made us see more. Now I shudder whenever I find that sort of connectedness creeping into my life.

To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing.

We have flown the air like birds and swum the sea like fishes, but have yet to learn the simple act of walking the earth like brothers.

Without love, there is no reason to know anyone, for love will in the end connect us to our neighbors, our children and our hearts.

We cannot long survive spiritually separated in a world that is geographically together.

The real tragedy of such narrow provincialism is that we see people as entities or merely as things. Too seldom do we see people in their true humanness.

You have very little morally persuasive power with people who can feel your underlying contempt