#closeness

Some of his own closeness to nature, his great love for human beings, was passed on by Whitman to all of us who knew and loved him. ↗

— Ella R. Bloor

#closeness #great #great love #him #his

Their families helped them realize that there was more out there for them. These students came to Delaware State because of its inexpensive tuition, closeness to home, and solid reputation. ↗

— Michael N. Castle

#came #closeness #delaware #delaware state #families

We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness. ↗

— Linda McCartney

#because #bit #boy #closeness #completely

I have tried to preserve in my relationship to the film the same closeness and intimacy that exists between a painter and his canvas. ↗

— Norman McLaren

#canvas #closeness #exists #film #his

Somewhere we know that without silence words lose their meaning, that without listening speaking no longer heals, that without distance closeness cannot cure. ↗

— Henri Nouwen

#closeness #cure #distance #heals #know

There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#beautiful-creatures #beautiful-darkness #closeness #distance #far

The stars look like they're so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can't. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are. ↗

— Kami Garcia

#stars #beauty

Ivan tells Anna: "I used to imagine that being embraced by a woman . . . as something so wonderful that it would make me forget everthing . . . [But] happiness, it turns out, will be to share with you the burden I can't share with anyone else. ↗

— Vasily Grossman

#happiness #imagination

You have someone in your life whom you honor and revere so much that every hurt on them is inflicted on you as well. And the closer they are to you, the greater the pain. ↗

— Masashi Kishimoto

#honor #hurt #naruto #pain #life

Maybe I’m just farsighted. The further away something is, the better I can see it but once it gets close, I lose sight of it. ↗

— Ai Yazawa

#farsighted #love #love