86 quotes
“Whoever is happy will make others happy too.”
— Anne Frank
“And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
— Khalil Gibran
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.”
— Voltaire
“What you seek is seeking you.”
— Rumi
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health safe connections are fundamental to meaningful and satisfying lives”
— Bessel van der Kolk
“Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something they feel a little guilty because they didnt really do it they just saw something.”
— Steve Jobs
“We are hardwired for connection and the healing that comes from truly being seen by another person”
— Brene Brown
“We need four hugs a day for survival eight for maintenance twelve for growth”
— Virginia Satir
“When we get too caught up in the busyness of the world we lose connection with the compassion that lives in our hearts”
— Jack Kornfield
“The universe is not a collection of objects but a communion of subjects.”
— Thomas Berry
“The fountains mingle with the river, and the rivers with the ocean.”
— Percy Bysshe Shelley
— Kahlil Gibran
“Gratitude enriches human life. It elevates ennobles and inspires. It helps us connect to our source of life.”
— Robert Emmons
“A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.”
— Rainer Maria Rilke
“Today science has confirmed what many have intuitively known that we are all connected in a web of wonder”
— Nikola Tesla
“In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future.”
— Alex Haley
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. That person has creativity too.”
— Frida Kahlo
“The universe is not a collection of objects, but a communion of subjects.”
“The essence of pop art is about connecting high and low culture”
— Takashi Murakami
“If we are a metaphor of the universe the human couple is the metaphor of the couple of the metaphor”
— Octavio Paz
“We are part of this universe we are in this universe but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the universe is in us”
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
“The universe itself is god and the universal outpouring of its soul”
— Chrysippus
“A human being is a part of the whole called universe and compassion connects us to that whole”
— Albert Einstein
“If I know what love is, it is because of you.”
— Herman Hesse
“All real living is meeting”
— Martin Buber
“The language of friendship is not words but meanings.”
— Henry David Thoreau
“A joy that is shared is a joy made double.”
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“Your heart and my heart are very very old friends.”
— Hafiz
“Understanding is the other name of love. If you do not understand, you cannot love.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.”
— Plato
“We are all just walking each other home”
— Ram Dass
“In the darkness two shadows reaching through the hopeless heavy dusk their hands met and light spilled in a flood like a survey of the sun”
— Madeline Miller
“When one is a stranger to oneself then one is estranged from others too”
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“A human being is a part of the whole, called by us 'Universe,' a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings, as something separate from the rest — a kind of optical delusion of consciousness.”
— Unknown
“Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.”
— Patanjali
“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls”
— Paramahansa Yogananda
“Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.”
“Vulnerability is the birthplace of connection and the path to the feeling of worthiness”
“Just as despair can come to one only from other human beings hope too can be given to one only by other human beings.”
— Elie Wiesel
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen just listen”
— Rachel Naomi Remen
“Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls.”
“I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued.”
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world there must be someone just like me”
“What is beautiful is good and who is good will soon also be beautiful”
— Sappho
“All real living is meeting.”
“Connection is why we are here and compassion is the bridge that makes connection possible”
“To love another person is to see the face of God.”
— Victor Hugo
“The things that matter most in our lives are not fantastic or grand they are moments when we touch one another”
“In the stillness of the night I have walked with you and we have spoken in the silence of our hearts”
“The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself.”
— Lao Tzu
“Go often to the house of thy friend, for weeds choke the unused path.”
“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.”
— William Arthur Ward
“The earth is what we all have in common”
— Wendell Berry
“The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.”
— Hubert H. Humphrey
“The soul that can speak through the eyes can also kiss with a gaze.”
— Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
“Connection is why we are here it gives purpose and meaning to our lives”
“True happiness arises from the enjoyment of one's self, and from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.”
— Joseph Addison
“Compassion is the thread that connects us when everything else has been torn apart”
— Naomi Shihab Nye
“Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same”
— Emily Bronte
“Whatever our souls are made of his and mine are the same.”
“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”
— William Shakespeare
“We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads through family.”
— Herman Melville
“Connection is why we are here. It is what gives purpose and meaning to our family lives.”
“Being able to feel safe with other people is probably the single most important aspect of mental health”
“If we have no peace it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.”
— Mother Teresa
“Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along.”
“Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.”
“I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria who were frightened of life who were desperate to reach out to another person through creative expression.”
— Tennessee Williams
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people and time connects us all”
“When we try to pick out anything by itself we find it hitched to everything else in the universe which is wonder”
— John Muir
“Connection is why we are here it is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives”
“Your heart and my heart are very old friends.”
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought there are so many people in the world. There must be someone just like me.”
“Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity.”
— Pema Chodron
“The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.”
— Germaine de Staël
“You are therefore I am”
— Satish Kumar
“We need four hugs a day for survival. We need eight hugs a day for maintenance. We need twelve hugs a day for growth.”
“Happiness is not perfected until it is shared.”
— Jane Austen
“Your healing matters not just for you but for everyone connected to you healing ripples outward”
— Thema Bryant
“We are happy when we have family, we are happy when we have friends, and almost all the other things we think make us happy are actually just ways of getting more family and friends.”
— Daniel Gilbert
“Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.”
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