Quotes About Togetherness

How could one person pray the prayer of the community without being held up and supported in prayer by the community itself? At precisely this point every word of criticism must be transformed into more faithful intercession and mutual help. How easily a community can split apart if this is not done!

Many of us lead family lives. At most, the members of a family stay together for the duration of a lifetime, often much less. While that fleeting moment of being together still lasts, we should try to remain in perfect harmony with each other, while observing the Dharma as much as possible. Night and day, let us turn our minds toward goodness, love, and compassion.

We would meet outside the same wine bar we had gone to on our first date, and from there we would wander through the city for five or six hours since neither one of us had a private place that we could retreat to. Walking out in the open for so long only helped to draw us closer. There was too much space on the avenues, and the side streets were often too crowded with people and cabs hurrying to cut across town. To counter that we held each other's hands and arms, ribs and waists.

In the passage of their lives together every object in the garden, every item in the house, every word they spoke, arrested to their mutual love, the combining of their humours.

Ništa nas tako ne ujedinjuje kao bol.

When we are dreaming alone it is only a dream. When we are dreaming with others, it is the beginning of reality.

The future belongs to crowds.

I mean, what happened to developing the individual, to encouraging subversion and independence? I thought that's what this place was all about. Instead, it's, you know, just the old bourgeois concept of togetherness–i.e., conformity–under the guise of PC liberalism. It's fucking oppressive, man. It's downright totalitarian.

We will go to heaven or we will go to hell, but we will go together.

To make a happy fireside clime To weans and wife, That's the true pathos and sublime Of human life.

Pull up a chair. Take a taste. Come join us. Life is so endlessly delicious.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

The most important thing in life will always be family. The people right here, right now.

In the beginning of life, when we are infants, we need others to survive. And at the end of life, we need others to survive. But here's the secret, in between, we need others as well.

We're all here at the same time and we should celebrate that.

However great your dedication, you never win anything on your own

That's what life is all about: Let's have a party. Let's have it tonight.

We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life.

The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.

Life's better with company. Everybody needs a co-pilot.

Good food is a celebration of life.

I've always known that life is better when you share it. I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.

Friends make life a lot more fun.

The welfare of each is bound up in the welfare of all.