George R. R. Martin Quotes

If I am all mankind, are they themselves without me?

Patch was in my life for a reason. I needed him. We were two halves of the same whole.

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

We are each other's destiny.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

We are all one. We're not as separate as we oftentimes think.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

Every man might have need of others, and from hence they might be all knit more nearly together in the Bonds of brotherly affection. From hence it appears plainly that no man is made more honorable than another or more wealthy … out of any particular and singular respect to himself, but for the glory of his creator and the common good of the creature, man

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

I believe in the power of one and that we are all bound by the thread of oneness and humanity.

I forget that he is another person; instead it feels like he is another part of me, just as essential as a heart or an eye or an arm.

Love weaves itself from hundreds of threads.

A woman is only half of something there are usually two sides to.

Is this what family is like: the feeling that everyone’s connected, that with one piece missing, the whole thing’s broken?

Every heart is the other heart. Every soul is the other soul. Every face is the other face. The individual is the one illusion.

Instead of separation and division, all distinctions make for a rich diversity to be celebrated for the sake of the unity that underlies them. We are different so that we can know our need of one another.

Love: To feel with one's whole self the existence of another being.

For every individual is a unique manifestation of the Whole, as every branch is a particular outreaching of the tree. To manifest individuality, every branch must have a sensitive connection with the tree, just as our independently moving and differentiated fingers must have a sensitive connection with the whole body. The point, which can hardly be repeated too often, is that differentiation is not separation.

Compassion- which means, literally, "to suffer with"- is the way to the truth that we are most ourselves, not when we differ from others, but when we are the same. Indeed the main spiritual question is not, "What difference do you make?" but "What do you have in common?" It is not "excelling" but "serving" that makes us most human. It is not proving ourselves to be better than others but confessing to be just like others that is the way to healing and reconciliation.

We are not the same. But we are, somehow, one.

Lovers embrace that which is between them rather than each other.