Quotes About Connection

Imagine, if you will, what life would be like if you were not understood.

Of everything that man erects and builds in his urge for living nothing is in my eyes better and more valuable than bridges. They are more important than houses, more sacred than shrines. Belonging to everyone and being equal to everyone, useful, always built with a sense, on the spot where most human needs are crossing, they are more durable than other buildings and they do not serve for anything secret or bad.

In diesem Moment wurde mir klar, wie vereinsamt ich war: Schon bei der kleinsten zwischenmenschlichen Zuwendung brach ich beinahe in Tränen aus.

When you stand and share your story in an empowering way, your story will heal you and your story will heal somebody else.

I am, Sir, a brother of the Angle.

Thus use your frog…. Put your hook through his mouth, and out at his gills;… and then with a fine needle and silk sew the upper part of his leg, with only one stitch, to the arming-wire of your hook; or tie the frog's leg, above the upper joint, to the armed-wire; and in so doing use him as though you loved him.

In this world love has no color yet how deeply my body is stained by yours.

Even if I now saw you only once, I would long for you through worlds, worlds.

Perhaps, if I make a friend of the mountain cuckoo in this world, he will talk to me when we cross the mountain of death

Lakkaako kerran olemassaoloni, vai muistanenko viime tapaamisemme maailman tuolle puolen?

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men: Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is humble, that he knows no more.

Neither rites nor rituals, neither creed nor ceremonies are needed to improve the condition of the world. All that is needed is love for one another.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

Ik ben de enige die al de vrouwen die ze geweest is in haar kan zien. Soms raak ik haar dan aan, raak ik ze allemaal tegelijk even zachtjes aan.

As candle lights candle, [the spouses's] desire for each other kindles a desire for the Love of which their love is but a reflection.

It is in the nature of love to bind itself";2 vows are love's native language. Love that is mute in the language of promises, though it may be called love, is not love but something else.

Natural function and personal meaning are not alien to each other, they are connected. In

Death and taxes may be inevitable, but they shouldn't be related.

We need to remember that politics is all about people, not programs. We shouldn't want to take the humanness out of the political arena.

In addition, there is one title I cherish a great deal more than Congressman and that is the title of... Dad.

Don't bury it, use it. Don't keep it in, give it away. Don't turn that love in, turn that love out.

A person can't tell another person what to put between them and their God.

Cause all these people livin are brothers and sisters and cousins. All these beautiful different colors! We! … We the human Family. God said so! FAMILY!