connection Quotes

Sending greeting cards to aliens is hardly a new idea. In 2005, Craigslist solicited messages for broadcast to space by a transmitter in Florida, and in 2008, NASA beamed a Beatles song to the North Star (Polaris), on the assumption that any putative Polarians would appreciate the Fab Four's 1960s-genre compositions.

All those chemicals that create empathy only work when you are in a room together.

Every social justice movement that I know of has come out of people sitting in small groups, telling their life stories, and discovering that other people have shared similar experiences.

If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

And all people live, Not by reason of any care they have for themselves, But by the love for them that is in other people.

So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself.

But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything.

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.

Saints need sinners.