Quotes About Unity

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Quilts are like lives. They're made up of a lot of little pieces," Nit said.

In an extended journal entry in 1849, entitled 'A Sister,' Thoreau defines this figure as one 'Whose heart answers to your heart. Whose presence can fill all space. One is a spirit. Who attends to your truth... The stream of whose being unites with your own without a ripple or murmur.

There were others like her. Of course there were. How had she ever thought there would not be?

understanding can only come from a recognition of each other's history.

If national interest comes before our common humanity, Dalia said, then there is no hope for redemption, there is no hope for healing, there is no hope for transformation, there is no hope for anything! One

Our enemy is the only partner we have.

It was a universal welcome—Make yourself at home; Mi casa es su casa; Ahlan wa-sahlan; Baruch habah

Eretz Yisrael (Land of Israel) alongside Bashir's love of Arde Falastin (Land of Palestine).

In the crooks of your body, I find my religon.

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I want her to melt into me, like butter on toast. I want to absorb her and walk around for the rest of my days with her encased in my skin.

Then she turns to Midnight and perches delicately on his lowered back. He rises, arches his neck, and carries Marlena from the big top. The rest of the horses follow, once again grouped by color, crowding each other to stay close to their mistress.

Oneness is always growing in the world, boy. Two but not two. It's always there, connecting its roots, humming. I can't be part of it--that's the price I pay for taking myself away. But you can be. You can vibrate with its heartbeat. You may be on your own. But you won't be alone.

Peter shifted his backpack and crutches. He took a step toward the bus. Then he turned back. I'm family? That's as true a thing as I've ever known. Now get on that bus.

Vola: So which is it? You going back for your home or for your pet? Peter: They're the same thing.

You may be on your own. But you won't be alone.

the mark we've left on each other is the color and shape of love. That's the unfinished business between us. because love, love is never finished.

Because we were having a family crisis. Your family had a crisis? Yes, Ethan. My family. Had a crisis. A crisis was had by my family.

Right now it's like we're three islands, and nothing but oceans between us.

From the most distant prehistory, masked dancing and dramatic art have woven the fabric of group life. Declaiming and performing myths was a way of reinforcing a common worldview, bringing it to embodied life, imprinting it in members' subconscious. That is what the anarchists were doing.

Red scares united Americans against not just the handful of violent anarchists, but against the hundreds of thousands of labor activists who were tarred with the same brush.

Disaster survivors and their neighbors instantly place whatever food they can collectively hunt and gather in common. There is no class, no race, no political orientation. Such meat sharing lies at the root of humans' remarkable egalitarian tendencies. Those tendencies are reinforced every time the ritual is enacted—especially at moments of vivid intensity

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.