715 quotes found
“we sulked and, in the finest tradition of bored soldiers, sat around throwing stones at each other.”
“The more we love, the more it hurts, and the more we have to let go.”
“As I look back over my mountains of growth and compare them to the molehills where I stagnated, community often made the difference.”
“Often we see detox as a solitary pursuit, something we have to muscle up for and go it alone. But the truth is that it will be easier and healthier if you find a way to integrate your friends and f...”
“Community, community, community. It's ALL about community. That's the explanation of why it pains us when we find ourselves isolated from others. That's the reason why it hurts to say good-bye to t...”
“All human beings are alone. No other person will completely feel like we do, think like we do, act like we do. Each of us is unique, and our aloneness is the other side of our uniqueness. The quest...”
“We don't have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that's what I want in life. What I'm grateful and thankful to have found at Yale, and what I'm scared of losing when ...”
“When we feel lonely we keep looking for a person or persons who can take our loneliness away. Our lonely hearts cry out, 'Please hold me, touch me, speak to me, pay attention to me.' But soon we di...”
“On one of the right-side-up pages show wrote, with some difficulty, Know what roots know: there is only one tree.”
“I feel that all knowledge should be in the free-trade zone. Your knowledge, my knowledge, everybody's knowledge should be made use of. I think people who refuse to use other people's knowledge are ...”
“By connecting and being part of a community with a shared vision and goals, we can create great things.”
“Your selfis other people, all the people you're tied to, and it's only a thread.”
“Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.”
“Sometimes when were suffering we feel as if we have been singled out. We wonder why God has picked on us. But my life as the rabbi of a small synagogue taught me that if thats what we think, we are...”
“A community narrows down and grows dreadful ignorant when it is shut up to its own affairs, and gets no knowledge of the outside world except from a cheap, unprincipled paper.”
“The Trade Center dead formed a kind of universal parliament.”
“Garfield's assassination attempt made "the whole nation care".”
“If God loves the world, might that not be proved in my own love for it? I prayed to know in my heart His love for the world, and this was my most prideful, foolish, and dangerous prayer. It was my ...”
“As parents we're meant to help each other out and build each other up.”
“Cooking is all about connection, I've learned, between us and other species, other times, other cultures (human and microbial both), but, most important, other people. Cooking is one of the more be...”
