It's the most breathtakingly ironic things about living: the fact that we are all-identical twins included-alone. Singular. And yet what we seek-what saves us-is our connection to others.
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Related Each of us views life through a different lens. What we think is colored by the baggage we carry, an... LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made ... RALPH WALDO EMERSON It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that ... DOUGLAS COUPLAND In periods of rapid personal change, we pass through life as though we are spellcast. We speak in se... DOUGLAS COUPLAND In every passing moment that is not appreciated time cannot give it back to you. So in moments of id... GARY F EVANS... If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th... GARY F EVANS... Each time we surrender, we find once more that the desperation that drives us to our knees fuels the... NARCOTICS ANONYMOUS Our difference are beautiful yet sometimes connection requires us to focus on our similarities, like... SCOTT STABILE Same first name as a president and an obscure comic book character. Half-Jewish. Excellent grammar. ... BECKY ALBERTALLI We are what we are. LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Air is approximately 21% oxygen, our brains feed off of oxygen. So basically we are all airheads. ANDONI GARCIA Inspired By Beauty In Creation We Are One DANIEL GILMAN If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y... GARY F EVANS... I'm already gone. I died that night on the side of that road with my sister. TRISHA LEAVER Perfection isn't everything," she said as she turned and walked away. "I think the flaws are what ma... TRISHA LEAVER With her I'd buried myself, every memory of who I was now, six feet under with the sister I'd put th... TRISHA LEAVER A couple of customers interrupted [...] who wanted to know if we had some YA book about ants and ali... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Being present is being connected to All Things. S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. It takes great courage to write great books. Find your courage and find your voice. KRISTEN LAMB Persistence can look a lot like stupid. KRISTEN LAMB All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are i... HEATHER DONAHUE We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE We do not know what we want and yet we are responsible for what we are - that is the fact JEAN-PAUL SARTRE So, tomorrow, I'm leaving. And I'm not going to let that happen again with anyone else. I'm going to... STEPHEN CHBOSKY Humans seek connection above all else, and we are willing to destroy things to attain it. TARRYN FISHER When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most RONALD ANTHONY Connection is why we're here; it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives. The power that conn... BRENé BROWN A house takes on the character of its inhabitants; a homeowner takes on the characteristics of the h... CLIFFORD COHEN Habit is thus the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is wh... WILLIAM JAMES We don't know what the connection is yet. JOHN CANNON Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is w... WILLIAM JAMES What do you care about deeply? What would you dedicate your life to if you could? What would you die... DEREK RYDALL What we do to impress others are the very things others find most annoying. BURKE FRANKLIN Expectations are nothing more than the rules we set, in order to maintain our ego and self esteem. W... SHANNON L. ALDER What love is it, then, that has no need of words to call us? In whose image are we made, to take suc... CHRISTIAN BOBIN Thats sort of a cliché about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful chi... HEATHER ARMSTRONG When we follow what we love, we begin living according to our most admirable values. When we become ... ANGIE KARAN Orion is above the horizon now, and near it Jupiter, brighter than it will ever be ... But i expect ... THOMAS HARRIS Many of us spend long minutes in the aisle of the drugstore mulling over what toothpaste to buy. Yet... MELANIE JOY Religion is, in reality, living. Our religion is not what we profess, or what we say, or what we pro... JACK D. FORBES We've got exactly what we need to fulfill our destiny! ABHISHEK KUMAR We may not get to choose how we die, but we can chose how we live. The universe may for... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Dreams are hopeful because they exist as pure possibility. Unlike memories, which are fossils, long ... SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense. JIM HARRISON When we hide our failings from others, we seek to hide them from ourselves, and it is in the latter ... PIERRE NICOLE We humans may be brilliant and we may be special, but we are still connected to the rest of life. No... PATRICIA B. MCCONNELL Do not let the opinions of others consume you.When we choose to let the opinions of others matter to... DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA It's ironic to me, ... that as a boss, all of our leverage comes from our people, yet we very seldom... BOB ROSNER There’s this thing about shadows. They mimic us. They are a constant reminder of the fact tha... CHIRAG TULSIANI What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remai... ALBERT PIKE We are saved by faith alone, but the faith that saves is never alone. MARTIN LUTHER The most important thing is not what others are planning against us, but what our reaction is to wha... SUNDAY ADELAJA When our thoughts are unsettled and our inner world is in a muddle, we may sharpen our wits and try ... ERIK PEVERNAGIE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES When we are very young, our parents inadvertently program us to be what we eventually become. PEGGY TONEY HORTON The twins are now 11 and the little one is 5. But the twins know what I'm doing and even wear little... DAVID BLOOM We ought to, as human beings, have the courage to seek a collective “truth” that benefits our sp... TARUN BETALA The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl... ANGIE KARAN Everyone is the Umbrella Man and he is everyone. Every cough, sneeze, smile and wave means both ever... CRAIG CLEVENGER Ques eso? Queso? NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN The feeling that we are all neglected and lonely but not so lonely that "others" do not see us in tr... ALBERT CAMUS One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We... DALE CARNEGIE One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We... DALE CARNEGIE What nourishes us at home and in school is what inspires us. When we get awareness and learn about t... VICENTE FOX We give our children everything, because they are the most important things in our lives. They are w... DAVID JACKSON It is, I think, that we are all so alone in what lies deepest in our souls, so unable to find the wo... SHELDON VANAUKEN We have three sets of identical boys, one set of identical girls and two sets of fraternal twins. We... HOLLY DAVIS We all want to be revered for our obsession. Most are not revered because they do not know what they... JAMES BRADLEY SINCLAIR Language and identity are so fundamentally intertwined. You peel back all the layers in terms of wha... JHUMPA LAHIRI Because you can only die once but you can suffer forever. SHAUN DAVID HUTCHINSON Seek for no meaning in it; it has none. What meaning is there in pain and pleasure? They are twins; ... JOHN DAVIDSON But these are foolish things to all the wise,
And I love wisdom more than she loves me;
My ten... LORD BYRON (GEORGE GORDON NOEL BYRON) Considering how much we are all given to discuss the characters of others, and discuss them often no... ANTHONY TROLLOPE We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I gu... LIBBA BRAY One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We... DALE CARNEGIE Chewing tiger nut is good exercise for the mouth, i love its nutty taste SOTONYE ANGA We attribute to ourselves qualities that we do not possess because if we possessed them, our lives w... LAURA KNIGHT JADCZYK "Since we don't always get we want, the growth is in making what we get, what we want." - Simcha Glu... SIMCHA GLUCK Our outward appearance is a reflection of what we are on the inside. Our lives reflect that for whic... MARGARET D. NADAULD We doubt in others, what is in fact in ourselves. The skeletons in your own closet are the things th... C. JOYBELL C. Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a... GEORGES BATAILLE Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret a... GEORGE BATAILLE We are all different. Yet we are all God's children. We are all united behind this country and the c... BARBARA BOXER I am aware that everyone that exists has a story, and we all exist because that story is important f... ARZELL Dae FATE NAYAE Nanagha Vandhuttoom Da, Sandy , Na Nata, London Lass,Russian Grapes, Ellorum Ippa Van... SATHESH KUMAR M What Fucks me... is that we both are the same... we all walk on the same path... but everything is a... DEYTH BANGER Self-absorption in all its forms kills empathy, let alone compassion. When we focus on ourselves, ou... DANIEL GOLEMAN What makes us different from consulting-type operations is that we are all manufacturing people. The... LARRY SYKES She buys "mixed salad greens" for seven dollars a bag, triple-washed with who knows what. And to get... RUDOLPH DELSON Writing is like driving at night in the fog. You can only see as far as your headlights, but you can... E.L. DOCTOROW When love for the Lord and His love for our neighbors /
Is what we are into and what we're about, /
... DAVID L. HATTON There's something missing about how we're informing the youngsters coming along about what m... SYLVIA EARLE In our extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we fi... SUZANNE MOARNY We're going to learn a lot by using this vessel. The top of the vessel is virtually identical, and t... MARK ROSENKER Most of us dont become what we can be because we cant see its what we already are. CARL HAMMERSCHLAG We are but cells living in a much larger organism, however, this does not make our existence less si... A.J. DARKHOLME We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of ... HERMANN HESSE SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of othe... PASCAL MERCIER Identical twins are endemically alike in many ways. EDWARD NORTON
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CHARLES LAMB Pain is life--the sharper, the more evidence of life. CHARLES LAMB He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality. CHARLES LAMB Borrowers of books --those mutilators of collections, spoilers of the symmetry of shelves, and creat... CHARLES LAMB I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and th... CHARLES LAMB The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth... CHARLES LAMB Separate from the pleasure of your company, I don't much care if I never see another mountain in my ... CHARLES LAMB 'Presents,' I often say, 'endear absents.' CHARLES LAMB A year from now you may wish you had started today. KAREN LAMB Pain is life -- the sharper, the more evidence of life. CHARLES LAMB Lawyers I suppose were children once. CHARLES LAMB He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides. CHARLES LAMB A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market. CHARLES LAMB The beggar is the only person in the universe not obliged to study appearance. CHARLES LAMB Don't introduce me to that man! I want to go on hating him, and I can't hate a man whom I know. CHARLES LAMB My motto is: Contented with little, yet wishing for more. CHARLES LAMB Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions fo... CHARLES LAMB When I consider how little of a rarity children are -- that every street and blind alley swarms with... CHARLES LAMB A child is fed with milk and praise. MARY LAMB Cards are war, in disguise of a sport. CHARLES LAMB We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always... CHARLES LAMB A poor relation is the most irrelevant thing in nature, a piece of impertinent correspondence, an od... CHARLES LAMB A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feath... CHARLES LAMB Were I Diogenes, I would not move out of a kilderkin into a hogshead, though the first had had nothi... CHARLES LAMB The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by acciden... CHARLES LAMB The beggar wears all colors fearing none. CHARLES LAMB How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. S... CHARLES LAMB For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hea... CHARLES LAMB The red-letter days, now become, to all intents and purposes, dead-letter days. CHARLES LAMB To be sick is to enjoy monarchical prerogatives. CHARLES LAMB Newspapers always excite curiosity. No one ever lays one down without a feeling of disappointment. CHARLES LAMB Presents, I often say, endear absents. CHARLES LAMB