Quotes About Unity

I don't know what you think of me. And you certainly would never picture us together. But probably peanut butter was just peanut butter for a long time, before someone ever thought of pairing it with jelly. And there was salt, but it started to taste better when there was pepper. And what's the point of butter without bread? (Why are all these examples of FOODS?!!?!?!?!?!?!) Anyway by myself I'm nothing special. But with you I could be.

This is love, I think. A place where people who have been alone may lock together like hawks and spin in the air, dizzy with surprise at the connection. A place you go willingly, and with wonder

That's why we read fiction, isn't it? To remind us that whatever we suffer, we're not the only ones?

Home is not a place, but rather, the people you love

It's never the differences between people that suprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

On the surface, we're polar opposites. Under the skin, though, we're the same: people think they know what they're getting, and they're always wrong.

That's what love is. It's some power greater than you and me, that draws us to one special person

if there isn't a them, there can't be an us.

Isn't it amazing how, when you strip away everything, people are so much alike?

It's never the differences between people that surprise us. It's the things that, against all odds, we have in common.

She belonged to me, He said simply. She was , you know, all the things I wasn't. And I was all the things she wasn't. She could paint circles around anyone; I can't even draw a straight line. She was never into sports; I've always been. He lifted his outstretched palm and curled his fingers. Her hand, he said. It fit mine.

In the wild, an elephant mother and daughter stay in close proximity their whole lives; I hope I am that lucky.

No matter what Joe Hoffman and Wade Preston say, it's not gender that makes a family; it's love. You don't need a mother and a father; you don't necessarily even need two parents. You just need someone who's got your back.

It seems to me that no matter what religion you subscribe to, acts of kindness are the stepping-stones to making the world a better place--because we become better people in it.

Your hand fits mine like the last piece of a jigsaw puzzle

They ask, how could this happen here? Well. How could it not happen here?

Grandmothers in Botswana tell their children that if you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, you must go together.

My grandmother told me that her father used to ask her a riddle: What must you break apart in order to bring a family close together? Bread, of course.

It was almost as if there was a tear in the fabric I was made of, and he was the only color thread that would match to stitch it back up.

There are so many ways a family can unravel. All it takes is a tiny slash of selfishness, a rip of greed, a puncture of bad luck. And yet, woven tightly, family can be the strongest bond imaginable.

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

I would prove to you that being different isn't a death sentence but a call to arms.

Somewhere along the line, organized religion stopped being about faith, and started being about who had the power to keep the faith. You said that the purpose of religion was to bring people together. But does it, really? Or does it-knowingly, purposefully, and intentionally--break them apart?

I learned the hard way that you shouldn't stay with someone because of your past together - what matters more is if you want the same things in the future.