“Becoming more deeply connected with those you admire and love bolsters, in you, the traits you most admire in them.” — Kare Anderson Copy Share Image
A writer's job is to imagine everything so personally that the fiction is as vivid as memories. — John Irving Copy Share Image
“How vast, how extensive the boundary of your company, and the magnificence of your affection.” — Sanu Sharma Copy Share Image
You can't prevent a possible future closeness between your upcoming child and one or more of their grandparents. — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
'The Federalist' is a small staff, and our close-knit family of senior contributors outwork our competition because of that closeness. — Ben Domenech Copy Share Image
Never Lie to your close ones Truth can hurt for a while But a Lie will spoil the essence Of closeness for… — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
The closeness [of Rex Tillerson] to [Vladimir] Putin will be one of the unifying issues between the Republican critics and Democratic critics. — E. J. Dionne Copy Share Image
“You need no other friend if you already have just one friend who truly deserves to be called a friend.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
The greatest pleasure in translating is precisely this feeling of spiritual closeness and spiritual merging with the translated author. Moreover this spiritual… — Ventseslav Konstantinov Copy Share Image
“Instead, we were together in the non-sensorial place, almost like we were inside the other’s consciousness, a closeness that real life with… — John Green Copy Share Image
I have seven step-siblings from my mother's second and third marriages. My degree of closeness to my step-siblings varies among the seven… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
Science boasts of the distance of its stars; of the terrific remoteness of the things of which it has to speak. But… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
One thing about being a painter is that if you have a dog you are naturally going to spend a lot of… — Ken Gillespie Copy Share Image
“That's sisters, Katie thought. They stick together. They don't have to be grown-up before they start. I guess they are just born… — Loula Grace Erdman Copy Share Image
“Well, I've kept you waiting long enough," he said, peering at me from that distance which drinking adds between people and which,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
The Sudanese have delighted me, not only in their generosity and simplicity, but also in their tendency to take tea with milk… — Tom Allen Copy Share Image
Great artists are products of their own time: they do not spring forth fully equipped from the head of Jove, but are… — Germaine Greer Copy Share Image
I met Peter Brook, the theater director, who's been based in Paris for many years at the Bouffes du Nord. I admire… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural… — Ansel Adams Copy Share Image
We must open our eyes to admire God who hides and at the same time reveals himself in things and introduces us… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“Robbie and Cecilia had been making love for years - by post. In their coded exchanges they had drawn close, but how… — Ian McEwan Copy Share Image
I think every human being, born from mother, and at least the next few years, you see, received immense affection from our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We live in the Age of the Higher Brain, the cerebral cortex that has grown enormously over the last few millennia, overshadowing… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“There is a frontier-line in human closeness That love and passion cannot violate-- Though in silence mouth to mouth be soldered And… — Anna Akhmatova Copy Share Image
I hurry to express to you and your fellow citizens my profound sorrow and my closeness in prayer for the nation at… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
“My sister and I are so close that we finish each other’s sentences and often wonder who’s memories belong to whom.” — Shannon Celebi Copy Share Image
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well. — Carrie Fisher Copy Share Image
Distance never breaks a relation & closeness never builds a relation, if feelings are true and honest then relation are always long lasting... — Nisha Kapoor Copy Share Image
So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“Friendships - and indeed most relationships - are measured in the closeness of hearts, minds and soul ties... not in the distance… — Rasheed Ogunlaru Copy Share Image
There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we… — Kami Garcia Copy Share Image
We come into the world alone. We go away the same. We're meant to spend the interlude between in closeness or so… — Rod McKuen Copy Share Image
“Everything that is, to us, almost obscenely close, sometimes through our observation, although undeservedly, constantly provokes and nourishes a sneer.” — Stanka Gjurić Copy Share Image
If, in your relationship with the Lord, you do not feel that He loves you tenderly, you are missing something, you still… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The development of a kind heart, or feeling of closeness for all human beings, does not involve any of the kind of… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Sean settles swiftly behind me, and I'm startled by the sudden closeness of him, my back suddenly warm against his chest, the… — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
This is really skin privilege, the ranking of color in terms of its closeness to white people or white-skinned people and its… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“By the external appearance of your knowledge, you have attained (high) ranks and reverence with the people! So seek with Allah higher… — Wuhayb ibn al-Wird Copy Share Image
As a test of the closeness of your relationship with the world, sex could never be a patch on being murdered. (That's… — Quentin Crisp Copy Share Image
“You don't have to have sex to find a feeling of closeness and understanding. Lord knows I feel that way about you.… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image