Quotes About Unity

People helping each other in the aftermath of tragedy is the only really convincing argument for people.

You stand in my soul; I stand in yours. That's the room we always share, no matter where we are.

Their curved bodies were two parts of the same heart, and though he couldn't put this on canvas any more than he'd been able to capture Marcus' face there, he knew moments like this were imprinted on the universe, already rendered by a Master Artist far greater than he would ever be.

The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities, but to know that there is someone who, though distant, thinks and feels with us -- this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

Ne pominji mi gomile šarene! Duh beži od nas kad se javi masa.

Jesus felt pure and calmly thought Only the One God; Who made himself to be a god Offends his holy will. And thus the right(ness) has to shine What Mahomet also achieved; Only by the term of the One He mastered the whole world

This truth is a remedy against spiritual pride, namely, that none should account himself better before God than others, though perhaps adorned with greater gifts, and endowments.

Even the weak become strong when they are united.

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

If sensibility and understanding as the two branches of human knowledge spring from one common root, to what end such a violent, unauthorized and willful separation of that which nature has joined together! Will not both branches wither away and die through a dichotomy and division of their common root?

The living and efficaciously acting moral order is itself God. We require no other God, nor can we grasp any other.

To end loneliness, you need other people—plus something else. You also need, he explained to me, to feel you are sharing something with the other person, or the group, that is meaningful to both of you. You have to be in it together—and "it" can be anything that you both think has meaning and value.

If you see the world through fragments, your empathy often doesn't kick in, in the way that it does when you engage with something in a sustained, focused way.

At the start of the Second World War, the English poet W. H. Auden—when he looked out over the new technologies of destruction that had been created by humans—warned: "We must love one another, or die.

Stop thinking only about individual recovery, he argues, and start thinking about "social recovery.

Fragmentation makes you smaller, shallower, angrier. Flow makes you bigger, deeper, calmer. Fragmentation shrinks us. Flow expands us.

you don't need millions of people. You need a small group of people that get [what] the problems [are], and know about creative confrontation—to create drama around it, to begin the consciousness-raising…. You capture people's attention, and then enough people feel that it's a vital issue that they want to give their time and their energy [to], and that there's a clear direction.

We're all on the same ball of mud and water that is heading toward a catastrophic end potentially. If we are going to solve these problems, we can't do it alone," he said. "That's why I think empathy is so valuable.

There's a force that is fracturing all of us.

We have been tribeless and disconnected for so long now. It's time for us all to come home.

Empathy makes progress possible, and every time you widen human empathy, you open the universe a little more.

You feel you are purely present in the moment. You experience a loss of self-consciousness. In this state it's like your ego has vanished and you have merged with the task—like you are the rock you are climbing.

Paradise is always where love dwells.

Harmony is next to Godliness