Quotes About Connection

Human beings are the planets way of committing suicide.

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In just a few more years, the current homogenized 'voice' of business—the sound of mission statements and brochures—will seem as contrived and artificial as the language of the 18th century French court.…[C]ompanies that speak in the language of the pitch, the dog-and-pony show, are no longer speaking to anyone."4

The things about yourself you fear are the most personal are also the most universal." Trust

God's image…is found not best in individual humans, but in humans as they relate to each other.

When people love each other, when they find each other out of thousands and millions of people. It's always destiny.

At Imbolg, we always use a version of that in our ritual, with each person who wishes to pulling out three strands of hair by the roots and feeding them into a flame while putting themselves anew under the protection of Brighidh.

he wants her to be thinking about him.

An abusive man is at his most punishing when the woman moves toward health, independence, and social connection.

On our garden walks Mama always used to tell me, 'Angels live in gardens, Darcy.' 'Where?' I would ask, looking around for the white-winged beings I saw drawn on my Sunday school papers. 'Close your eyes and breathe deep.' 'All is smell is flowers, Mama,' I would say. 'Not so. That's the breath of the angels. And the stirrings you hear in the leaves are their wings brushing past.

Each generation stamps itself onto the next one. The impression is indelible. Like the flowers in my mother's gardens that come and go with the changing seasons, life re-creates itself. And the best of life must be nurtured if it is to thrive.

While the two of them might never be the closest of friends, they had developed a connection that was important for each of them. When they'd needed someone, they'd found one another.

Lani felt certain that hers and Dawson's worlds would never collide. She was wrong.

A man's heart away from nature becomes hard; lack of respect for growing, living things soon leads to a lack of respect for humans too.

The old Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart away from nature becomes hard; he knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans, too.

The Lakota was wise. He knew that man's heart, away from nature, becomes hard; he knew that a lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to a lack of respect for humans, too.

There was no such thing as emptiness in the world. Even in the sky there were no vacant places. Everywhere there was life, visible and invisible, and every object possessed something that would be good for us to have also—even to the very stones.

Witchcraft is all about living to the heights and depths of life as a way of worship.

Mas será sobre nós, nossa esperança ou pessimismo, nosso afeto ou frieza, que os filhos darão os primeiros de seus muitos passos. E farão isso com seus filhos futuramente. Serão tão fundamentais para eles quanto os pais de nossos pais foram na geração anterior.

To get to know someone new, you need to touch a lot.

We are in tune, and given the chance, we do things tunefully. We dance.

A rose is a rose, but it is also a robin and a rabbit.

Rooted ways embolden us to remember that with our complex minds we can feel—and live—more than one thing simultaneously. Anxiety, difficulty, fear, despair. Yes. Beauty, connectedness, possibility, love. Yes.

Our bodies, minds, and spirits stand in ancient communion with the soil.