Quotes About Connection

If what philosophers say of the kinship of God and Man be true, what remains for men to do but as Socrates did:—never, when asked one's country, to answer, I am an Athenian or a Corinthian, but I am a citizen of the world.

Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men.

Regularly ask yourself, "How are my thoughts, words, and deeds affecting my friends, my spouse, my neighbor, my child, my employer, my subordinates, my fellow citizens? Am I doing my part to contribute to the spiritual progress of all with whom I come in contact?" Make it your business to draw out the best in others by being an exemplar yourself.

If then all things that grow, nay, our own bodies, are thus bound up with the whole, is not this still truer of our souls? And if our souls are bound up and in contact with God, as being very parts and fragments plucked from Himself, shall He not feel every movement of theirs as though it were His own, and belonging to His own nature?

If you are kissing your child or wife, say that it is a human being whom you are kissing, for when the wife or child dies, you will not be disturbed.

So why not care for that side of you, where you and the gods are equals?

A person who rarely leaves home, who doesn't converse with, praise, and encourage others, will not attract friends.

There is nothing more inspiring than a speaker who makes clear to his audience that he has need of them.

Disorder created connections??that is, resonance.

A college friend once explained that the difference Neil Young and Crazy Horse and Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band was that the former made you feel as if they were really no better than you are, while the latter somehow convinces you that you can be as great as they are.

destruction of the past, or rather the social mechanisms that link one's contemporary experience to that of earlier generations, is one of the most characteristic and eerie phenomena of the late twentieth century. Most young men and women at the century's end grow up in a permanent present lacking any organic relation to the public past of the times in which they live

Our passionate preoccupation with the sun, the stars and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.

How frighteningly few are the persons whose death would spoil our appetite and make the world seem empty.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate whenever they meet.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs. -

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

There are no chaste minds. Minds copulate wherever they meet.

Success and failure are unavoidably related in our minds with the state of things around us

A plant needs roots in order to grow. With man it is the other way around: only when he grows does he have roots and feels at home in the world.

Pascal was of the opinion that "one was well-minded to understand holy writ when one hated oneself."20 There is apparently some connection between dissatisfaction with oneself and a proneness to credulity

I wish I had met you first. Before we met them.

common sense is the enemy of romance

loneliness has its own needs!

with attachment comes pain!