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