Connection quotes

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◆ You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.

- John Lennon100

◆ Only connect!

- E.M. Forster99

◆ It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.

- Martin Luther King Jr.99

◆ People can't be just tied together. They have to connect. Otherwise, they'll find themselves bound hand and foot.

- Ai Yazawa99

◆ Life's just a bunch of accidents, connected by one perfect end.

- Daniel C. Tomas99

◆ Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

- Umberto Eco99

◆ Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me.

- Albert Schweitzer99

◆ Family was even a bigger word than I imagined, wide and without limitations, if you allowed it, defying easy definition. You had family that was supposed to be family and wasn't, family that wasn't family but was, halves becoming whole, wholes splitting into two; it was possible to lack whole, honest love and connection from family in lead roles, yet to be filled to abundance by the unexpected supporting players.

- Deb Caletti99

◆ I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.

- Criss Jami99

◆ Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)

- Sura Hart99

◆ We are all wonderful, beautiful wrecks. That's what connects us--that we're all broken, all beautifully imperfect.

- Emilio Estevez99

◆ Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by a power greater than all of us, and that our connection to that power and to one another is grounded in love and compassion. Practicing spirituality brings a sense of perspective, meaning and purpose to our lives.

- Brené Brown99

◆ Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need not become a hermit to achieve this goal, for it is neither ecstasy nor world-estranged mysticism his era demands, but a balance between quantitative and qualitative reality. Modern man, with his reduced capacity for intuitive perception, is unlikely to benefit from the contemplative life of a hermit in the wilderness. But what he can do is to give undivided attention, at times, to a natural phenomenon, observing it in detail, and recalling all the scientific facts about it he may remember. Gradually, however, he must silence his thoughts and, for moments at least, forget all his personal cares and desires, until nothing remains in his soul but awe for the miracle before him. Such efforts are like journeys beyond the boundaries of narrow self-love and, although the process of intuitive awakening is laborious and slow, its rewards are noticeable from the very first. If pursued through the course of years, something will begin to stir in the human soul, a sense of kinship with the forces of life consciousness which rule the world of plants and animals, and with the powers which determine the laws of matter. While analytical intellect may well be called the most precious fruit of the Modern Age, it must not be allowed to rule supreme in matters of cognition. If science is to bring happiness and real progress to the world, it needs the warmth of man's heart just as much as the cold inquisitiveness of his brain.

- Franz Winkler99

◆ We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

- William James99

◆ 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 Powell99