Quotes About Unity

he was no more mine than the trees were mine. No more mine than the sun. And with this realization I knew that I could never be separate from her, any more than I could ever be separate from the trees or from the sun.

She was no more mine than the trees were mine. No more mine than the sun. And with this realization I knew that I could never be separate from her, any more than I could ever be separate from the trees or from the sun.

nothing soothes fear and shame like connection.

Two weeks of aunts," said Papa. "That's a lot of aunts." "They'll help," said Mama. "Oh, I know that," said Papa, laughing. "They may take over.

SO FOUR DOGS AND A CAT

Life is made up of circles.

Joy connects us to something larger than ourselves," Beethoven explained, "while happiness is something more personal, something a little more selfish perhaps.

Let us live without hate among those who hate

The Church would impoverish Herself to the degree that She refused to tap this richness.

What I loved most about our family was that we could all speak our hearts. We never measured words.

You are the heart of this family," she said, "with your songs.

Dos opuestos se pueden unir para crear algo totalmente nuevo y extraordinario.

Living in a community normally boosts one's chances of surviving and thriving. We can share food and huddle against the cold; we can organize to attack prey or to defend each other against invaders.

With upwards of a million people attending, give yourself over to the crowd and join a massive 100,000-strong conga line like the one that set the world's record in 1988.

They lay together like a word and a comma, asleep within an unfinished sentence.

there are no separate lives; each life and individual character exists in relation to every other life: dead, living, yet to live.

All the elements of the universe -- fire, earth, air and water -- are assembled in a loaf of bread.

Standing with reluctant feet, where the brook and river meet.

I was a grown woman before I found out black folks aren't the only ones who have hard times. Everybody's got a struggle. Nobody gets through this life easy.

I was beginning to see fewer of our weaknesses and more of our strengths; the events of the day were a reminder of how each of us had certain abilities that the rest did not. It was as if we were each a part of a whole body- one the hands, another the legs, and so on- dependent on one another and working best when we performed in unity. I felt inadequate then, unsure what part of this body I might be.

Friends can feel such things in times of peril, as if a long, thin string holds them carefully together, tugging at one another through the open space of a dangerous world. The

I kind of felt like he carried his whole self around with him. When he was with me, he was really with me.

from the word you build the village, but from silence you construct the world.

The paradox is that we can only truly love each other when we also love something beyond each other.