Quotes for All
It was understood that they shared the same thresholds–the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one … Read more
Freedom, that’s the kind of power I’m interested in. When we help each other get free, then it’s not about anybody being on top or anybody being on the bottom. It’s about being together, in a community. Eve Ensler
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages. Ernest Holmes
It is never good dwelling on good-byes … it is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting. Elizabeth Bibesco
Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist’s mind? – can both repose and energy be seen in a painting’s line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? – and is the true effect of a good painting on the … Read more
Only he who loves and is loved for his own sake can be happy, and what produces that happiness is not so much the sense of sexual communion as of two people being together … the sexual act viewed as a whole probably affords less happiness than a totally ordinary kiss or often indeed one … Read more
We are always talking about being together, and yet whatever we invent destroys the family, and makes us wild, touchless beasts feeding on technicolor prairies and rivers. Edward Dahlberg
When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that \”being\” is merely a continual \”has been,\” a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself. Friedrich Nietzsche
No house should ever be on a hill or on anything. It should be of the hill. Belonging to it. Hill and house should live together each the happier for the other. Frank Lloyd Wright
The reason why lovers and their mistresses never tire of being together is that they are always talking of themselves. [Fr., Ce qui fait que amants et les maitresses ne s’ennuient point d’etre ensemble; c’est qu’ils parlent toujours d’eux memes.] Francois de La Rochefoucauld