Quotes About Unity

you will become everything, including the moving and the inert.

It is better we disintegrate in peace and not in pieces.

Peace is not just a prayer.

Don't Let's Be Beastly to the Germans

That strange feeling we had in the war. Have you found anything in your lives since to equal it in strength? A sort of splendid carelessness it was, holding us together.

Have you considered," Rob said slowly, "how each faith claims that it alone has God's heart and ear? We, you, and Islam—each vows it is the true religion. Can it be that we're all three wrong?" "Perhaps we're all three right," Mirdin said.

We are all equal in the face of nature.

We want relationships to last. We want families to stay together. We like it when the good guy wins. Fairy tales. I'm describing fairy tales.

This is who we had become by then, people who gathered in the rain, arguing over whether or not they were getting wet.

So many riches. So much power. And all we had to do was decide. Would we cleave together or cleave apart?

You share a birthday with at least nine million other people in the world.

All that technical expertise isn't worth a damn if you don't get the best out of people, though. . . . These were leaders who saw strength in ordinary people and showed them how to break tyranny.

We were each other's armor. And in that moment, we each became the other's lance, sword, and shield.

Courage is contagious: When one person of courage stands up, others are affected and stand up with him

When two people are destined in heaven to be together, they are complete, and the repairing of the world can begin

Love is love is truth is love.

Because in the end it was just about people: mothers, fathers, friends, foes, sisters, brothers, children born and not yet born, sons, and daughters; people from all over the United States and then all over the globe, whose lives would never be the same. Because the world changed that day, slowly and then all at once.

There are absolutely no problems between me, my dad and my sister. Obviously I grew up with just my mum, but my relationship with my dad is just fine.

When we really love and are loved, we are no longer free to act as we please, because we can't shake off the knowledge that whatever we do affects those we love and who love us. This is what family means... Mutual love and responsibility, and the discipline of love.

Nothing is more powerful than an individual acting out of his conscience, thus helping to bring the collective conscience to life

People who develop the habit of thinking of themselves as world citizens are fulfilling the first requirement of sanity in our time.

The title 'Lord of All-Rus' did not possess much basis either in history or in current reality. It came into the same category as that whereby the kings of England laid claim to France. In the 1490s, two-and-a-half centuries after all traces of a united Kyivan Rus' had been destroyed, it had the same degree of credibility that the king of France might have enjoyed if, in his struggle with the German Empire, he had proclaimed himself 'Lord of all the Franks'.

2. A brain cannot think without motor function. Wrote Feldenkrais, "My fundamental contention is that the unity of mind and body is an objective reality, that these entities are not related to each other in one fashion or another, but are an inseparable whole. To put this more clearly: I contend that a brain could not think without motor functions.

We realize how dangerous and painful life is if we don't open up. We know we have to do it. And as soon as we start to try, we realize immediately that there is no way that we could ever do this alone, because opening up means opening to what's around us, to others, to the world, and to our radical connectedness.