Quotes About Unity

We have to build the Republic of Heaven where we are, because for us, there is no elsewhere.

From what we are, spirit; from what we do, matter. Matter and spirit are one.

And then what? said her daemon sleepily. Build what? The Republic of Heaven, said Lyra.

When she saw how they worked, not on their own but two by two, working their trunks together to tie a knot, she realized why they'd been so astonished by her hands, because of course she could tie knots on her own. At first she felt that this gave an advantage--she needed no one else-- and then she realized how it cut her off from others. Perhaps all human beings were like that.

I'll be looking for you, Will, every moment, every single moment. And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart.

They could not have done it alone, but together they did it.

And when we do find each other again, we'll cling together so tight that nothing and no one'll ever tear us apart. Every atom of me and every atom of you… We'll live in birds and flowers and and in those little specks of light you see floating in sunbeams.

The Musicians of Bremen

Every atom of me and every atom of you... we'll live in birds and flowers and dragonflies and in pine trees and in clouds and in those little specks of light you see in sunbeams... And when they use our atoms to make new lives, they won't be able to take just one, they'll have to take two, one for you and one for me.

Does the tree say to the sparrow "Get out, you don't belong here?" Does the tree say to the hungry man "This fruit is not for you?" Does the tree test the loyalty of the beasts before it allows them into the shade?

they have separated their intelligences from their other faculties. And that is not an intelligent thing to do.

We'll be alive again in a thousand blades of grass, and a million leaves; we'll be falling in the raindrops and blowing in the fresh breeze; we'll be glittering in the dew under the stars and the moon out there in the physical world, which is our true home and always was.

Nosotros seguimos siendo un solo ser, los dos formamos una sola criatura

Nevertheless, he understood: this was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.

they could discuss without quarreling and cooperate without getting in each other's way

This was work, and it was hard, but they were equal to it, all of them.

The thought came to Will and Lyra at the same moment, and they exchanged a tear-filled glance. And for the second time in their lives, but not the last, each of them saw their own expression on the other's face.

Il n'y a pas d'ailleurs

Every atom of me, and every atom of you.

I heard a baby cry. And this blood-splattered thing was put in my arms. My child. And, at that moment, it was like a gigantic plug appeared and - POW! - I was plugged into humanity in a way I'd never been before. Never could be. I was part of all mothers and all births from the beginning of time. I was a woman in a mud hut in Africa, in an igloo in the Arctic, a wigwam in America, a cave, a skyscraper, a spaceship. I was part of a flow and that flow was blood -

the time will come when we are people again, and not just Jews.

It's the Sundays that keep these couples together. As if Sundays alone could be any worse.

It's important that neighborhood life goes on as usual—otherwise, it's not only the stricken and their families who are victims, but Weequahic itself becomes a victim. At

True unity is built upon freedom, not conformity