#closeness

Sometimes the thing that brings us together also pulls us apart. Sort of like a zipper.
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— Jarod Kintz

#cohesive #proximity #pull #together #unity

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

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

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

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

You are closer to me than my breath, ↗

— John Speed

#love

People can misconstrue closeness for love. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#love #people

We criticize mothers for closeness. We criticize fathers for distance. How many of us have expected less from our fathers and appreciated what they gave us more? How many of us always let them off the hook? ↗

— Ellen Goodman

#always #appreciated #closeness #criticize #distance