Quotes About Connection

Start each day asking, "How do I want others to feel?" Then act accordingly.

When a woman opens up about her fertility struggles, I feel less alone, and I hope to help others in the same way.

Sometimes something happens and you find that all the people you knew are like nothing and someone you never saw before will reach out a hand to help.

Only when you give from the heart does it make the giving whole.

When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help.

One real meeting is much better than a thousand internet or social media words.

Art thou lonely O my brother? Share thy little with another! Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.

With each day that our huge ship was on the ocean, my sense of being further and further away from my loved ones, my home, and my environment grew stronger.

Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.

The thing about dating someone who listens to a totally different genre than you is they can help you find things to appreciate in that genre.

Ancient Egypt was a Negro Civilization. The history of Black Africa will remain suspended in air and cannot be written correctly until African historians dare to connect it with the history of Egypt.

Those who have no record of what their forebears have accomplished lose the inspiration which comes from the teaching of biography and history.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being. Storytelling is a form of history, of immortality too. It goes from one generation to another. -Studs Terkel

You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read.

I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.

Crazy Horse saw history as integrated in the present, incorporated into daily life.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

All history is contemporary history.

Old books exert a strange fascination for me -- their smell, their feel, their history; wondering who might have owned them, how they lived, what they felt.

If you want to get an idea across, wrap it up in a person.

You can't fake this music. You might be a great singer or a great musician but, in the need, that's got nothing to do with it. It's how you connect to the songs and to the history behind them.

One never really knows how much one has been touched by a place until one has left it.

When I read great literature, great drama, speeches, or sermons, I feel that the human mind has not achieved anything greater than the ability to share feelings and thoughts through language.

The great force of history comes from the fact that we carry it within us, are unconsciously controlled by it in many ways, and history is literally present in all that we do.