Quotes About Interconnectedness

I accept the Organic Trinity of Mineral, Vegetable, and Animal with as much authority as I accept the Holy Trinity. Both are sacred.

We all suffer for each other, and gain by each other's suffering; for man never stands alone here, though he will stand alone hereafter; but here is he is a social being, and goes forward to his long home as one of a large company.

Life is like a chain. The stronger pulls the average and the latter, the weak. So, do not break this chain. If you do so, you have either forget who pulled you and made you think you are strong or you have just made some bad choices.

A chain is no stronger than its weakest link, and life is after all a chain.

To realize that everything in the universe is connected is to both accept our insignificance and understand our importance in it.

You are part of a puzzle in someone's life. You may never know where you fit. But, someone's life may never be complete without you in it.

The greatest and the smallest, light and dark, right and wrong - they all come together to form the miracle that is life, and none can exist without the others.

This and this and this

Empirically speaking, we are made from star stuff. Why aren't we talking more about that? Materials never leave this world. They just keep recycling, recombining. That's what you kept telling me when we met--that in a real, material sense, what is made from where . I didn't have a clue what you were talking about, but I could see you burned for it. I wanted to be near that burning. I still don't understand, but at least now my fingers ride the lip.

Some days seem to fit together like a stained glass window. A hundred little pieces of different color and mood that, when combined, create a complete picture.

As a spider emits and draws in its thread, As plants arise on the earth, As the hairs of the head and body from a living person, So from The Eternal arises everything here.

And I wonder---if everything's connected, does that mean that everything can be manipulated and controlled centrally by those who know how to pull strings. . . .

the sweat of one person has significance only when it serves everybody.

Es kommt in einer christlichen Gemeinschaft alles darauf an, daß jeder Einzelne ein unentbehrliches Glied einer Kette wird.

Hegel further believed that all things owe their existence to their opposites and that all opposites are actually identical.

Aunque as follas sexan moitas, a raíz é só unha. (p. 185).

The dark and the light are braided and bound.

Thus I discovered that if one is the least bit welcoming in one's treatment of it, a word never comes alone. It brings along with it all those that belong to its clan...102

Dans les petites villes, les gens sont toujours prêts à partager vos ennuis. Si vous n'en avez pas, ils se font une joie de vous en créer.

Even in the most insignificant details of our daily life, none of us can be said to constitute a material whole, which is identical for everyone, and need only be turned up like a page in an account-book or the record of a will; our social personality is created by the thoughts of other people.

After a certain age our memories are so intertwined with one another that what we are thinking of, the book we are reading, scarcely matters any more. We have put something of ourselves everywhere, everything is fertile, everything is dangerous, and we can make discoveries no less precious than in Pascal's Pensées in an advertisement for soap.

The truth, even more, is that life is perpetually weaving fresh threads which link one individual and one event to another, and that these threads are crossed and recrossed, doubled and redoubled to thicken the web, so that between any slightest point of our past and all the others a rich network of memories gives us an almost infinite variety of communicating paths to choose from.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

There is not a fragment in all nature, for every relative fragment of one thing is a full harmonious unit in itself.