Sarah Bush Johnson Lincoln Quotes

We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.

Friendship, I fancy, means one heart between two.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the lack of artifice in the relationship, contrast sharply with the much trickier dealings with members of their own species.

I like to believe that love is a reciprocal thing, that it can't really be felt, truly, by one.

Real people are places to me as much as persons: I want to see them, as I want to see the places I am fond of, in all weathers and at all times of the year.

This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very much, and we understood each other so well that it was a pleasure to make music.

Until one has loved an animal a part of one's soul remains unawakened.

I have had big relationships. Three times in my life I have felt a special connection, but people talk about looking for love as if it's just like walking into a Starbucks and buying a coffee when you feel like it. It's rare, that special connection.

Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

We were never intimate mother and children while she was our mother - but... when she became our child, the affection came.

The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.

I really love pets. They're like children. They know if you really love them or not. You can't fool them.

Love is a positive, symbiotic, reciprocal flow between two or more entities.

Anyone who pays attention to these things can easily see the incredible bond that everyone in my family shares.

Animals represent the abstract notion of acceptance. Living with these funny creatures - you kind of have to accept them. It's like a test in a way.

No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.

I don't think I could live with someone that I didn't have an intellectual friendship with.

The audience and I are friends. They allowed me to grow up with them. I've let them down several times. They've let me down several times. But we're all family.

Brain scans show synchrony between the brains of mother and child; but what they can't show is the internal bond that belongs to neither alone, a fusion in which the self feels so permeable it doesn't matter whose body is whose.

There was so much about my dad that wasn't on the surface.

I don't know if love exists, not the kind that keeps. I think love's an infatuation that turns into a habit, because you can't keep that passion going. You get used to people, and that's death for me - I like to be surprised.

When one twin is in need or hurt, the other twin definitely knows it. It really helps us being a successful tag team.

The love I have for my husband is intertwined with his, and we are two individuals looking in the same direction - as opposed to staring in each other's eyes all the time.

For me, anytime I see a mother truly loving her child, famous or not, it brings a smile to my face. I think most people would agree.