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