The Godwins: together we stand and divided we fall.....

“Holding hands, for example, is a way to remember how it feels to say nothing together.”
― Nicole Krauss

tags: togetherness

“Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey.

At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: bond, communication, connecting, connection, hands, holding-hands, journey, reaching-out, together, togetherness, touch, touching

“A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

tags: aid, assistance, breaking, broken, broken-glass, commuity, esteem, glass, help, helping, helping-others, not-alone, pieces, recovery, self, self-esteem, self-help, shattered, shattered-glass, support, together, togetherness, trash, treasure, value, vase, worth

“WE two boys together clinging,
One the other never leaving,
Up and down the roads going, North and South excursions making,
Power enjoying, elbows stretching, fingers clutching,
Arm'd and fearless, eating, drinking, sleeping, loving.
No law less than ourselves owning, sailing, soldiering, thieving,
threatening,
Misers, menials, priests alarming, air breathing, water drinking, on
the turf or the sea-beach dancing,
Cities wrenching, ease scorning, statutes mocking, feebleness
chasing,
Fulfilling our foray.”
― Walt Whitman

tags: amity, companionship, friendship, life, love, togetherness

“And as ridiculous as it may sound, sometimes all any of us needs in life is for someone to hold our hand and walk next to us.”
― James Frey, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

tags: companionship, fellowship, togetherness

“You could hold me and I could hold you. And it would be so peaceful. Completely peaceful. Like the feeling of sleep, but awake in it together.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson

tags: companionship, isaac, romantic, togetherness, will-grayson

“In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.”
― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms

tags: aid, assist, assistance, associate, association, better-world, bigger-picture, bullies, bully, bullying, commendable, confidence, control, cooperate, cooperation, development, encouragement, envy, evolution, evolve, excellence, excellent, hard-work, helping, helping-others, helping-out, humility, inhabitants, inspirational, land, mentality, mind, mocked, mockery, motivational, peace, peace-of-mind, peaceful, peacefulness, praise, psychology, question, self-control, serenity, strength, strong, stronger, superhuman, together, togetherness, unity, weakness, work, working-together, world

“If you can eat with mates or friends or family, I mean, it's such a brilliant thing isn't it? If you feel really rubbish and you have a nice bit of food it makes you feel good, you know?
”
― Jamie Oliver

tags: eating, food, friendship, meals, togetherness

“Disasters work like alarm clocks to the world, hence God allows them. They are shouting, 'Wake up! Love! Pray!”
― Criss Jami

tags: adversity, alarm, alarm-clocks, alert, apologetics, attacks, awakening, awareness, calamity, clocks, consideration, danger, destruction, disasters, emergency, god, helping-others, humanity, love, open-eyes, pain, perspective, pray, prayer, storms, suffering, togetherness, understanding, wake-up, working-together, world

“It's okay, girl, we'll make it till the sun goes down forever. And until then what you got to lose but the losing? We're fallen angels who didn't believe that nothing means nothing.”
― Jack Kerouac, Book of Blues

tags: reassurance, togetherness

“How can you lose me? You’ve owned me from the first moment I saw you.”
― Dianna Hardy, Cry Of The Wolf

tags: belong, belonging, bond, bonding, friendship, love, mate, own, owning, relationship, together, togetherness

“Isn't everyone a part of everyone else?”
― Budd Schulberg

tags: completion, humanity, relationships, togetherness

“Gardens and flowers have a way of bringing people together, drawing them from their homes.”
― Clare Ansberry, The Women of Troy Hill: The Back-Fence Virtues of Faith and Friendship

tags: flowers, friendship, gardens, togetherness

“Why were we so far apart, even when we were together? It was a nice loneliness, like the sensation of washing your face in cold water.”
― Banana Yoshimoto, The Lake

tags: loneliness, togetherness

“I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape”
― Naomi Novik, His Majesty's Dragon

tags: bonds, help, humor, inspirational, rescue, temeraire, togetherness

“A distant love that waits to be together, is by far the most difficult relationship. It's like lighting a candle, and adoring the long flame and robust glow. Until time sets in like wax, overflowing deeper and deeper into the wick, leaving a sparse flame struggling to live. This is where most distant relationships fade, with the wax smothering the flame. This kind of relationship takes patience, hope, unconditional love, trust and strength, all centered around God. If the flame endures to the end, and the two come together, only then will it feel as if the candle was tipped and all the wax came pouring out, when the flame is revived, long and glowing again.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: candle, difficulty, distant-relationship, end, endurance, fade, flame, glow, god, hope, love, patience, pouring-out, struggle, time, togetherness, wax

“Wherever you go in the next
catastrophé
Be it sickroom, or prison,
or cemet’ry
Do not fear that your stay will be
solit’ry
Countless souls share your fate,
you’ll have company!”
― Roman Payne, The Basement Trains

“There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at which two lines prop each other up, the leaning-together from the vertical which produces the false arch. For lack of a keystone, the false arch may be as much as one can expect in this life. Only the very lucky discover the keystone.”
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

tags: false-arches, happiness, harmony, keystones, love, marriage, married-life, matrimony, support, togetherness

“It is an absolute human certainty that no one can know his own beauty or perceive a sense of his own worth until it has been reflected back to him in the mirror of another loving, caring human being.”
― John Joseph Powell, The Secret of Staying in Love

tags: affection, alone, beauty, camaraderie, caring, caring-for-others, closeness, companionship, compassion, connectedness, connection, disconnection, empathy, estrangement, fellowship, friendship, friendship-quotes, hug, hugs, intimacy, isolation, kindness, kindred-spirits, loneliness, love, love-at-first-sight, love-quotes, lovers, loving, loving-someone, mirror, mutuality, partnership, reciprocal, reciprocity, reflected-in-you, relationship, relationship-quotes, relationships, romance, self-belief, self-esteem, self-hatred, self-realization, self-worth, self-worthiness, soul-mate, soulmates, togetherness, touch, twin-flames

“Protect your self-esteem and self-confidence - it is your responsibility!”
― Mark O'Brien

tags: friendship, love, self-confidence, self-esteem, togetherness

“For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two people who had no barrier between them, and no pride; whatever happened to him would happen to her too, all feeling, all movement, all sensation of body and of mind.”
― Daphne du Maurier, Frenchman's Creek

tags: connection, love, togetherness

“I turned to him and he reached for my hand. It would have been easier to walk away. But the wind still blew around us and the house still stood.”
― Kate Chisman, Creep

tags: creep, creepy, fear, fearful, ghost, ghosts, hard, hardship, haunted, haunted-house, horror, horror-story, love, lovers, relationship, relationships, stalked, stalker, stalkers, terror, together, togetherness

“The distance of a voice, is only a short time away from touch.”
― Anthony Liccione

tags: distance, patience, time, togetherness

“Laughter is sweet when enjoyed alone. But it becomes sweeter when you enjoy it together with the people around you. Your success must lead to the success others.”
― Israelmore Ayivor

tags: alone, brotherhood, enjoy, fellowship, friendship, generosity, generous, joy, jubilate, kind, kindness, laugh, laughter, love, neighbors, neighbours, other-people, people, relationship, share, success, successful, sweet, sweetening, sweeter, sweetest, togetherness, unity, welfare

“We can work together but we can't just work with each other.”
― Auliq Ice

tags: groups, groups-of-people, institutions, togetherness, venturers, work

“Randolph Henry Ash: “What is it? My dear?”
Christabel LaMotte: “Ah, how can we bear it?”
Randolph Henry Ash: “Bear what?”
Christabel LaMotte: “This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?”
Randolph Henry Ash: “We can be quiet together, and pretend – since it is only the beginning – that we have all the time in the world.”
Christabel LaMotte: “And every day we shall have less. And then none.”
Randolph Henry Ash: “Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?”
Christabel LaMotte: “No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.”
― A.S. Byatt, Possession

tags: love, togetherness