Joshua Pusey Quotes & Sayings

Loneliness is like sitting in an empty room and being aware of the space around you. It is a condition of separateness. Solitude is becoming one with the space around you. It is a condition of union. Loneliness is small, solitude is large. Loneliness closes in around you; solitude expands toward the infinite. Loneliness has its roots in words, in an internal conversation that nobody answers; solitude has its roots in the great silence of eternity. — Kent Nerburn

WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT WAS BONDING. Bonding is one of the most basic and foundational ideas in life and the universe. It is a basic human need. God created us with a hunger for relationship - for relationship with him and with our fellow people. At our very core we are relational beings. Without a solid, bonded relationship, the human soul will become mired in psychological and emotional problems. The soul cannot prosper without being connected to others. No matter what characteristics we possess, or what accomplishments we amass, without solid emotional connectedness, without bonding to God and other humans, we, like Joan and Robbie, will suffer sickness of the soul. — Henry Cloud

As you know, all women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger. — Reem Acra

Mr. Thornton felt that in this influx no one was speaking to Margaret, and was restless under this apparent neglect. But he never went near her himself; he did not look at her. Only, he knew what she was doing - or not doing - better than anyone else in the room. Margaret was so unconscious of herself, and so much amused by watching other people, that she never thought whether she was left unnoticed or not. — Elizabeth Gaskell

The fate of warnings in political affairs is to be futile when the recipient wishes otherwise. — Barbara W. Tuchman

We can't begin to learn until we admit how much we don't know. — Claudia Gray

He looked like a sleepwalker waking up on the verge of a precipice. — Ross Macdonald

The great requisite for the prosperous management of ordinary business is the want of imagination. — William Hazlitt

You have to follow your instinct, and that's what I've tried to do all my life, whether in music or anything. — Erol Alkan