Quotes About Connection

Everything that human beings feel, we feel. We can become extremely wise and sensitive to all of humanity and the whole universe simply by knowing ourselves, just as we are.

Modern humanity's sense of alienation lies in the fact that we have cut ourselves adrift from both the natural world and from the roots of our past.

The philosophic aim of education must be to get each one out of his isolated class and into the one humanity.

I think humans will find their humanity sometime, somehow.

Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.

Never have I met a person doing terrible things who would meet my own eyes peacefully. To gaze into another person's face is to do two things: to recognize their humanity, and to assert your own.

In solitude we realize that nothing human is alien to us.

It is a terrible, an inexorable, law that one cannot deny the humanity of another without diminishing one's own: in the face of one's victim, one sees oneself.

There's nothing like having grandchildren to restore your faith in humanity.

Without animals, there would be no humanity. In a world of just people, people will mean nothing . . .

We are all brothers under the skin - and I, for one, would be willing to skin humanity to prove it.

All of our humanity is dependent upon recognizing the humanity in others

You will find angling to be like the virtue of humanity, which has a calmness of spirit and a world of blessing attending upon it.

Humanity's greatest desire is to belong and connect.

The reason that gets me is, and the greatest part of my job and what I do, is the humanity of it and there's certain moments where that really cuts through.

The bottom line always remains the same: What is the basic humanity of the character? How do I make them resonate with the reader?

Nothing will change until we demolish the "we-they" mentality. We are human, and therefore all human concerns are ours. And those concerns are personal.

real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.

Humanity is the Son of God.

Writing is a way of sharing our humanity.

History must stay open, it is all humanity.

The truest state of humanity is that you're living for other people.

Humans are communications junkies. We just can't get enough.

You look at someone long enough, you discover their humanity.