Quotes About Unity

But all We did that day was mingle great and small Footprints in summer dust as if we drew The figure of our being less than two But more than one as yet.

For to be social is to be forgiving.

Good fences makes good neighbours

And good neighbors make a huge difference in the quality of life. I agree.

Wherever and however any one of us may be conceived, it is the same. We come into being in the arms of God.

Is it always to be a winners-losers world, or can we keep everyone in the game? Do we still have what it takes to find a better way?

Everything looks better at a distance. If you made it up, you have to live it down. Everything is compost. There is no they—only us. It's a mistake to believe everything you think. You can get used to anything. Sometimes things are just as bad as they seem. It helps if you always have somebody to kiss goodnight.

Religion is the great balm of existence because it takes us outside ourselves, connects us to something larger

In a speech Abraham Lincoln delivered at the height of the Civil War, he referred to the Southerners as fellow human beings who were in error. An elderly lady chastised him for not calling them irreconcilable enemies who must be destroyed. "Why, madam," Lincoln replied, "do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

You destroy an enemy when you make a friend of him.

In knowing yourself, you accept your limits. You are simply one person among many in the world, and not naturally superior to anyone.

You cannot hit two targets with one arrow. If your thoughts stray, you miss your enemies' heart. Mind and arrow must become one.

People with differences can work together if they have the same purpose. Paul wants all of them to think along the same lines, and to have a united purpose.

We shall creep out quietly into the butler's pantry-- cried the Mole. --with out pistols and swords and sticks-- shouted ther Rat. --and rush in upon them, said Badger. --and whack 'em, and whack 'em, and whack 'em! cried the Toad in ecstasy, running round and round the room, and jumping over the chairs.

Presently I somehow found myself singing. The words were mere nonsense- irresponsible babble...Humanity would have rejected it with scorn. Nature, everywhere singing in the same key, recognized and accepted it without a flicker of dissent.

very much like us in every important way and

Johnson women

We are at war, and in time of war there is only one rule. Form your battalion and fight.

One final note: in this book I say "we" a lot. No matter who you are, you will probably encounter at least one "we" to which your reaction is "not me." And maybe that's true. But that reaction illustrates a theme of the book, which is that the basic American struggle is over who is an insider and who an outsider—who comes within the most fundamental "we": We the People.

The Pool of Shared Meaning is the birthplace of synergy.

whatever the decision-making method, the greater the shared meaning in the pool, the better the choice, the more the unity, and the stronger the conviction

Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

We never grow tired of working together or simply talking. We have a rare rapport that others often recognize and envy. For myself, I have found this relationship to be one of the main sources of my own life force. I have called it a transcendental relationship, with a love and acceptance that go beyond the realm of this lifetime.

We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.