Quotes About Connection

Sometimes, I check out film sites if a friend sends me the URL.

I post all the time anyway. It's part of who I am. There's me IRL. There's me URL. That's just my life. Plus, I love it. It's amazing to connect with so many people.

The Earth does not belong to us: we belong to the Earth.

The Internet gave us access to everything; but it also gave everything access to us.

There is more that unites us than divides us.

Empathy is choosing to see ourselves in another despite our differences. It's recognizing that the same humanity - the same desire for meaning, fulfillment and security - exists in each of us, even if it's expressed uniquely.

Life is not a solo act. It's a huge collaboration, and we all need to assemble around us the people who care about us and support us in times of strife.

Our attitude towards others determines their attitude towards us.

Sometimes you have to disconnect to stay connected. Remember the old days when you had eye contact during a conversation? When everyone wasn't looking down at a device in their hands? We've become so focused on that tiny screen that we forget the big picture, the people right in front of us.

There is no 'them' and 'us.' There is only us.

Come, let us have some tea and continue to talk about happy things.

The differences that separate human beings are nothing compared to the similarities that bond us together.

Folk music takes us back to the roots of our culture.

Education teaches us compassion and kindness, connection to others.

Stories teach us empathy. They reveal to us ourselves in the skins of others.

We're so complex; we're mysteries to ourselves; we're difficult to each other. And then storytelling reminds us we're all the same.

At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.

Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.