Quotes About Unity

Their four blond boys were indistinguishable except for height: John, Kyle, Kevin, and Junior. The oldest was five, and having them so close together meant their mom couldn't laugh too hard anymore or she'd accidentally pee. (She'd told me on the uncomfortable ride home.)

Everyone in this town was a weirdo, that was a solid-gold fact, and it didn't matter because I wasn't alone anymore. I had the kitten.

Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone.

Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story . . . your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone.

Stories are people. I'm a story, you're a story . . . Your father is a story. Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone.

Weren't movies his generation's faith anyway—its true religion? Wasn't the theater our temple, the one place we enter separately but emerge from two hours later together, with the same experience, same guided emotions, same moral? A million schools taught ten million curricula, a million churches featured ten thousand sects with a billion sermons—but the same movie showed in every mall in the country. And we all saw it!

how much easier life would be if our intentions and our desires could always be aligned.

En zelfs als ze niet vinden waarnaar ze op zoek zijn, is het dan niet voldoende om samen in het zonlicht te lopen?

Automobiles and horse wagons filled the streetcar's wake, and Rye stood at that intersection for a long time, staring at the tracks. The whole country was laced together with tracks. He could get on a train and end up in New York City if he wanted, and this felt like another reverie, or a premonition. The world was becoming a single place.

But when you see yourself as an individual first, you are freed to think for yourself, and you become internally self-sufficient. You start to break free from the bonds of racial conformity, and you start to see the good and bad in everyone, irrespective of their color. You start to be less angry, and as you let go of anger you are empowered to love God, your family, and your country.

When you substitute the "I" for the "we" even illness becomes wellness

Shut up he says teasingly. I know what you're thinking, and that's not why you're here with us We walk for a minute. Why am I? Sabin shrugs. Does there really have to be an answer to that? Sometimes it's just right. You fit. Jesus, kid, can't you feel it? Don't question everything. I smile. I do feel it. Belonging.

We run through the remnants of our pain, and more importantly, we run for our present and for our future. Together we kick heartbreak's ass.

Her body pressed against his felt like the most natural thing in the world, and the way she fit against him as though they were made for this embrace was overwhelming.

You know the expression that love makes the world go 'round? That might be true, but love comes from the way differences interact. How personalities interact. How we bounce off of each other, challenge each other, and how we push and pull. It's through those tensions that we connect with others and with ourselves. And it's how we fall in love. Because there is magic in diversity.

We'll listen to old-school Kelly Clarkson power songs and sing until we lose our voices." "That is not a good plan." Celeste turned and peered into the back of the car.

We refuse to let the past wreck our today. That's why we're the team that we are.

I'm going to fall so deeply in love with you that I won't know where I stop and where you begin, and I'll never come back from that. And I don't want to.

Americans can face the world with open arms, Marianne had once said, because the world hasn't yet come to knock it down.

All of us are so much more alike than we want to accept.

That the last two letters in her name were the first two in his, a silly thing he never mentioned to her but caused him to believe that they were bound together.

Most of all I remember the three of them operating during that time as if they were a single person, sharing a single meal, a single body, a single silence, and a single fear.

Everything is there

Remember that you and I made this journey, that we went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go.