Quotes About Unity

La emoción surge en el punto donde cuerpo y mente se encuentran. Es la reacción del cuerpo a la mente o, dicho de otra forma, el reflejo de la mente en el cuerpo.

The others are most other when I see them as my enemies.

Compassion arises when you recognize that all are suffering from the same sickness of the mind, some more acutely than others.

Gloria Anzaldúa, who revolutionised the Chicana writing of her generation, called the border 'una herida abierta – an open wound – where the Third World grates against the First and bleeds. And before a scab forms, it haemorrhages again, the lifeblood of two countries merging to form a third country – a border culture.

The basic idea is that those who help best are the ones who both need help and give help. A healthy community is dependent on all of us being both.

And there is a rule in every major religion, called the Golden Rule. Essentially: treat other people the way you'd like to be treated yourself. If we all did this, the whole world would work instantaneously. Praying, meditation—fine. But just follow the Golden Rule and the whole world works. Making the world work could be that simple.

The twenty-first century is a key century for us on this planet. Either we make a world, where all seven billion people have a fair chance in this century - or forget it. If we can't do this, I don't think we are going to make it as a species. Despair is the fuel of terrorism, and hope is the fuel of civilization, so we have to put more hope into the world than despair. Hatred and separation and building walls is not the way to progress. Going backward is not the way to go forward.

How easily men could make things much better than they are – if they only all tried together!' Winston Churchill, 1909

In that little party there was not one who would desert another; yet we were of different countries, different colours, different races, different religions--and one of us was of a different world.

the bridesmaid's hand in his, Hazel and I think it would be ripping to make it a double wedding. The

They had fought together on many missions. They were linked by ties more binding than blood. There existed between them something that cannot be expressed in words, nor would they have thought of trying to. Perhaps Rosetti came nearest it when he slapped Davis on the back and said, You old sonofabitch!

for no border severs man from man, or one manner of living totally from another.

Do you think you're the only one groping? We're all in the dark together. Wait until God please to clear the sky.

I want - I want somehow to get away with you into a world where words like that -categories like that- won't exist. Where we shall be simply two human beings who love each other, who are the whole of life to each other; and nothing else on earth will matter.

Who's 'they'? Why don't you all get together and be 'they' yourselves?

She pronounced the word married as if her voice caressed it. It seemed a rustling covert leading to enchanted glades.

but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

And for a long while they stood side by side without speaking, each seeing the other in every line of the landscape.

I cannot picture what the life of the spirit would have been without him. He found me when my mind and soul were hungry and thirsty, and he fed them till our last hour together. It is such comradeships, made of seeing and dreaming, and thinking and laughing together, that make one feel that for those who have shared them there can be no parting.

Some one said the other day that there was a divorce and a case of appendicitis in every family one knows.

The bounds of a personality are not reproducible by a sharp black line, but...each of us flows imperceptibly into adjacent people and things.

The world] is not a pretty place; and the only way to keep a footing in it is to fight it on its own terms - and above all, my dear, not alone!

To keep a kind of republic of the spirit—that's what I call success.