Quotes About Togetherness

There's a great need to convene at the table with family and friends. People are feeling it and wanting it. For me to be a minor player in helping with that, it makes me so happy.

Part of acknowledging suffering is acknowledging we need help. It is much easier to practice compassion if you have the energy and support of a community.

None of us needs to embrace pain and sorrow alone. When you throw a rock into a river, no matter how small the rock is, it will sink to the bottom of the river. But if you have a boat, you can carry many tons of rocks, and they won't sink.

To build community, it is important to accept the insight of interbeing, of interconnectedness. We must realize that happiness is not an individual matter. Finding happiness through our separate, individual self is impossible.

Our practice for the new century should be to transform the notion that we are separate selves and to liberate ourselves from the prison of the individual. The most meaningful practice we have today is to learn how to live as a sangha.

All of living is nothing but a fervid attempt to move closer together.

We ought to have lived in mental communion, and no more.

Shall anything bolder be found than united woman?' Mr Spinks murmured.

If all be true that I do think, there are five reasons we should drink. Good friends, good times, or being dry, or lest we should be by and by, or any other reason why

The happiest moments of my life have been the few which I have passed at home in the bosom of my family

Ils se sont groupés, car une chose comme un pneumothorax rapproche naturellement les hommes, et ils s'appellent l'Association des demi-poumons [...].

The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

Il piacere di leggere è doppio quando si vive con qualcuno che divide con te gli stessi libri.

The whole world shall be ours because of our love.

We might be fifty, we might be five, So snug, so compact, so wise are we! Under the kitchen-table leg My knee is pressing against his knee.

Ah, what happiness it is to be with people who are all happy, to press hands, press cheeks, smile into eyes.

The Life and Soul, the man who will never go home while there is one man, woman or glass of anything not yet drunk.

Sisterhood is powerful.

Joy means so much more when shared with you.

The only sweeter than union is reunion.

The house filled rapidly; cheerful talk overflowed the rooms and children were bobbing in and out everywhere with their shining new toys, until finally, at a very late hour, we all sat down to the Christmas dinner, before the huge, crisp and crackling brown body of the Christmas goose. Everything but the holiday was forgotten. That was the last night I remember, in the years in which I was to remain in Germany, over which no shadow fell.

For my husband, who's been with me through all the good times and the bad. Life is a journey, an adventure. How wonderful to have a trusted companion.

No matter how big and strong you are, other people can help you if you let them.

cultural rituals exist to reinforce the unity of those performing them.