284 quotes found
“We are in this together. None of us truly walk in isolation, even when we cannot sense the presence of another for miles upon miles. Even in the worst of our desolation. Even during our coldest 3am...”
“And might it not be, continued Austerlitz, that we also have appointments to keep in the past, in what has gone before and is for the most part extinguished, and must go there in search of places a...”
“We often forget our human connectedness. Throughout my life, I have felt the greatest beauty lies in this connection. It has been in the deepest connections with others that I have experienced the ...”
“Happiness is largely about being socially connected, yet we cannot be connected if we keep on being so hard and unforgiving towards ourselves and on the scars we wear inside.”
“When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.”
“Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recognize that choosing whom I see and whom I don't see is one of the most hurtful functions of privilege.”
“Because one look into his eyes, and she was drowning in what existed there and didnt want to surface.”
“I'm not trying to bleed you. I want to renew you.”
“I never saw this coming - the little house was working its magic, connecting me to people and materials I never would have guessed would find their way into the picture.”
“As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.”
“The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehensible to the matter-of-fact, crude, standard-brained youngsters of today. Long after her death I ...”
“We each have our own language.Our own way of thinking, of talking to ourselves, of making sense of the world and putting it in order. A narration style that is ours and ours alone. That's why some ...”
“He was like the other half of myself,' says Boris...Ulrich says, 'You haven't lost {him}, you know. I don't know if it helps to say that. I lost a friend once myself, and I know how it goes.'He'll ...”
“Shared history was the coin of the realm.”
“Our culture tries to convince us on just about every front that more is better. More is a sign of wealth, luxury, power. Gone are the days when meals were moments of connection and conversation; no...”
“Life's journey is one big path with series of events. All these events are connected.”
“When a friend suddenly comes to mind for no apparent reason, he said its because they are near to us in thought or spirit. He explained that a connection takes place on the thought waves that run b...”
“To claim to understand, is a statement that only your imagination could conceive.”
“Even in your absence I fight with you in my mind, I laugh with you in my mind.That's how the strong connection exists between you and me. It will be forever.”
“The rising strong reckoning has two deceptively simple parts: (1) engaging with our feelings, and (2) getting curious about the story behind the feelings--what emotions we're experiencing and how t...”
