Connection proverbs

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◆ I now see how gifts like courage, compassion, and connection only work when they are exercised. Every day.

- Brene Brown98

◆ When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do.

- Rachel Naomi Remen98

◆ Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe.

- Albert Schweitzer98

◆ Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.

- Deborah Day98

◆ When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves.

- Judith Plaskow98

◆ Her soft trailing fingers would continue to attempt a connection that I refused to allow; that I couldn't allow if I wanted to survive.

- J.D. Stroube98

◆ It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.

- Ann Beattie98

◆ Our ancient experience confirms at every point that everything is linked together, everything is inseparable.

- Dalai Lama XIV98

◆ It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

- Mahatma Gandhi98

◆ Music is a total constant. That's why we have such a strong visceral connection to it, you know? Because a song can take you back instantly to a moment, or a place, or even a person. No matter what else has changed in you or the world, that one song stays the same, just like that moment.

- Sarah Dessen98

◆ The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of another.' And it seemed to him that he had just seen both ends of that chain; that when he touched one end the other quivered.

- Anton Chekhov98

◆ He felt lighter than he had in weeks, and he realized that the monster he had been running from wasn't really a monster after all. It was simply that place in the heart that holds the measure of your history, the joy and the grief, the laughter and the tears, the magic and the wonder; all the ingredients that add up to the story of a life well lived.

- Lilli Jolgren Day98

◆ There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

- Carson McCullers98

◆ Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

- Daniel J. Levitin98

◆ We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.

- Pete Hautman98