Quotes About Togetherness

This business I'm in is different. It's special. The people around me feel like brothers and sisters. We hardly know each other, but we're that close; somehow there's been an immediate bonding between total strangers. We share each other's triumphs, and when one of us gets hurt, we all bleed - it's corny, I know, but it's true. I've never experienced anything like this before. It's great. It turns up the heat in life.

I hope someday to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.

Days may be cloudy or sunny,We're in or we're out of the money,But I'm with you always,I'm with you rain or shine!

If I'm honest, I probably only held it together myself because we couldn't all go to pieces.

Because we are a team. And a team sticks together." Izzy lifted her chin. "We are the Baileyville packhorse librarians and we stick together." Beth punched her lightly on the arm as her horse moved forward. "Well, goddamn to that.

Time with my family was precious and I wouldn't ruin it by feeling sad.

we sat there together for a while longer, two people lost in remembered music, half hidden in the shadow of a castle on a moonlit hill.

Happiness [is] only real when shared

NONE OF US IS AS SMART AS ALL OF US.

Life is not a game of Solitaire; people depend on one another. When one does well, others are lifted. When one stumbles, others also are impacted.

No man is an island, No man stands alone; Each man's joy is joy to me, Each man's grief is my own. We need one another, So I will defend Each man as my brother, Each man as my friend.

But there are people too he says, everywhere there are people and I think it is easier to hold hands with people than it is with angels, yes?

We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of company only incidental, we are so shy about admitting our need for one another. [...] We say, 'Would you like to come for some coffee?', as though it were less frightening to acknowledge that we are heavily dependent on mildly stimulating drinks, than to acknowledge that we are at all dependent on the companionship of other people.

a modern version of the muscular bonding that Ehrenreich and McNeill had described. The scene and the experience awed him, shut down his "I," and merged him into a giant "we.

Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve on their own.

Religions exist primarily for people to achieve together what they cannot achieve on their own."43

social connectedness can go a long way toward alleviating the misery caused by a financial crisis.

We need to rediscover the idea of the common good and work together to build a home.

Religion' comes from the Latin ligare, meaning to join or bind. Religion binds people within the group – Christian to Christian, Muslim to Muslim, Jew to Jew.

This is one of only two instances in the whole Torah in which the words lo tov, "not good," appear. The other is in Genesis (2:18), where God says, "It is not good [lo tov] for man to be alone." We cannot lead alone. We cannot live alone. To be alone is not good.

I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like the kissing and the crying, I like the impatience, the stories that the mouth can't tell fast enough, the ears that aren't big enough, the eyes that can't take in all of the change, I like the hugging, the bringing together, the end of missing someone.

I was simply happy to have the chance to be with them again.

Wrong. I'm not alone. I have my friends.

This is what we had become, after the first symbiotic year of our living together: a couple who needed another couple to be around.