Quotes About Connection

When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity.

You know, when real trouble comes your humanity is awakened. The fundamental human experience is that of compassion.

Even when I cannot see him, I can hear the beautiful gallop of God's heartbeat for humanity.

Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

All peoples and nations are of one family, the children of one Father, and should be to one another as brothers and sisters.

Every one of us is blind and deaf until our eyes are opened to our fellowmen, until our ears hear the voice of humanity.

I hope I shall be able to make some drawings in which there is something human.

One cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own.

As human beings, why does it take somebody to feel like they're close to us for us to see their humanity? Why can't we see the humanity in people that are distant from us?

Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream.

We are all cells in the body of humanity - all of us, all over the world. Each one has a contribution to make, and will know from within what this contribution is.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

If we can cultivate a concern for others, keeping in mind the oneness of humanity, we can build a more compassionate world.

All that we can't say is all we need to hear.

The joy that compassion brings is one of the best-kept secrets of humanity. It is a secret known only to a very few people, a secret that has to be rediscovered over and over again.

Your inner purpose is to awaken. It is as simple as that. You share that purpose with every other person on the planet - because it is the purpose of humanity.

North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

The true artist does not create art as an end in itself; he creates art for human beings. Humanity is the goal.

We are blind to each other's humanity.

We are all cells in the same body of humanity.

Your lower self sees you as the center of the universe- your higher self sees you as a cell in the body of humanity.

When we hear the other person's feelings and needs, we recognize our common humanity.

Every human heart is human.