Quotes About Connection

I've performed in China, France, New Delhi, and Indianapolis, and everybody just allows themselves to go at it and have a good time. I think that's what I'm doing through music. It's not about 'I'm from here and you're from there.' It's about unity.

The tabernacle of unity hath been raised; regard ye not one another as strangers.

And suddenly, like light in darkness, the real truth broke in upon me; the simple fact of Man, which I had forgotten, which had lain deep buried and out of sight; the idea of community, of unity.

I believe in a kind of literature which makes clear that, at a deeper level, below the surface, we are tied together through invisible but existing threads. A kind of literature which talks about a lively, ever-changing world of unity, of which we are a small, but not insignificant part.

We must embrace unity, not separation - sharing, go back to small, caring communities. Unity, not separation, is what has to happen.

Everybody since the '60s has been saying the nation is a fiction - the nation is an imaginary unity - but people didn't connect the dots and say all human endeavours sprang from the same principle.

We'd like to build a highway for healing and unity.

I find some unity with Ron Paul.

I believe in unity, as opposed to division.

Music brings unity.

We should always be looking for the unity in things instead of the differences.

Our father has taught us that 'if you are together, nobody will try to break you.' That's unity and it has power.

The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle.

Film is one of the three universal languages, the other two: mathematics and music.

Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.

The Souvenir is an incredibly specific story, but people recognise the universal in it. Because, that's how stories work.

The one thing people like about my show is it's universal. Everybody can relate to it. I think people enjoy going to a show and saying, 'Something like that happened to me.'

There's nothing universal about Indian families except that the family itself is deeply important across the country. It's sort of the fabric and anchor of our country.

I think love is the through line and it's universal and it doesn't matter what period of time, time or place, or people, that's something we all connect to. That's the thin thread that I think keeps it altogether.

That concept is quite universal, looking for love.

Music is a universal thing with no boundaries, whether you play inside or outside.

Only conscious man can mirror the universal: he can consciously become one with the universal and so can consciously transcend the individual.

We are all regionalists in our origins, however 'universal' our themes and characters, and without our cherished hometowns and childhood landscapes to nourish us, we would be like plants set in shallow soil. Our souls must take root - almost literally.

There are some concerns that are universal. Everyone wants to be loved, and everyone wants to feel like they belong somewhere in the world. Everyone wants to do something and feel like they have a sense of purpose. These are just the things that I think about and the things that make their way into my songwriting.