Quotes about Connection

Bookstores always remind me that there are good things in this world

I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

I thought I would be understood without words

For me, life may well continue in solitude. I have never perceived those to whom I have been most attached other than as through a glass, darkly.

Where friendship blooms, life is reborn.

O never think the dead are dead, So long as there are men alive, The dead will live, the dead will live." That's how I feel it. Nothing sadder than that.

But I cannot help thinking that the best way of knowing God is to love many things. Love this friend, this person, this thing, whatever you like, and you will be on the right road to understanding Him better, that is what I keep telling myself. But you must love with a sublime, genuine, profound sympathy, with devotion, with intelligence, and you must try all the time to understand Him more, better and yet more. That will lead to God, that will lead to an unshakeable faith.

I always think that the best way to know God is to love many things.

We weren't put on Earth to exclude each other.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title.

Books are the mirrors of the soul.

You have to make time, even for something as universal as staring at the stars.