If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people. —Thích Nhất Hạnh More about this quote Tags: life family connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle. —Rainer Maria Rilke More about this quote Tags: connection nature home Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect. —Esther Dyson More about this quote Tags: alone connection alcohol sociology internet Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family. —Joseph Brodsky More about this quote Tags: friends relationships family connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men. —Herman Melville More about this quote Tags: others self connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Isn't everyone a part of everyone else? —Budd Schulberg More about this quote Tags: connection community Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
She's your one. The one who reaches you. The one who makes you different. —Abbi Glines in Hold On Tight More about this quote Tags: empathy change connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
For the Dargara people, death results in simply a different form of belonging to the community. It is a lesson . . . that change is the norm, that the world is defined by eternal cycles of decline and regeneration. . . . Death is not a separation but a different form of communion, a higher form of connectedness . . . providing an opportunity for even greater service. —Malidoma Somé More about this quote Tags: death connection community belonging regeneration reincarnation communion Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Yes, now. Now, please now, only now, not anything else only this now, and where are you and where am I and where is the other one, and not why, not ever why, only this now; and on and always please then always now, always now, for now always one now; one only one, there is no other one but one now, one, going now, rising now, sailing now, leaving now, wheeling now, soaring now, away now, all the way now, all of all the way now; one and one is one, is one, is one, is one, is still one, is still one, is one descendingly, is one softly, is one longingly, is one kindly, is one happily, is one in goodness, is one to cherish, is one now . . . —Ernest Hemingway in For Whom the Bell Tolls More about this quote Tags: connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
It's interesting, isn't it? That you can find yourself feeling so awkward in unfamiliar surroundings that you become more self-aware and more self-conscious? Maybe that lack of connection to an unfamiliar place can actually give you freedom to open up and see yourself. —Lauren Graham in Maybe More about this quote Tags: freedom connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Friendship leads to human connection, which feeds your soul. More than kale or spinning or fifteen-minute naps under your desk, conscious communication with your clutch friends is the best form of self-care. —Karen Kilgariff in Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered More about this quote Tags: friendship soul communication connection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email