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John Lennon
"You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one."
— John Lennon
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John Lennon
"A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
— John Lennon
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Susan Sontag
"Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It's all about paying attention. attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. stay eager."
— Susan Sontag
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"This time when we kiss, I feel it in the pit of my stomach, I feel it in my heart. And I realize love isn't about sex. It's about connection."
— Ellen Hopkins
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Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Invisible threads are the strongest ties"
— Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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Carl Gustav Jung
"Whatever is rejected from the self, appears in the world as an event."
— Carl Gustav Jung
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"Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."
— Chief Seattle, 1855
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Mahatma Gandhi
"The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even as there is between trees of the same species.
Where in is the cause for anger, envy or discrimination?"
— Mahatma Gandhi
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"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity..."
— John Muir
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thinks & feels with us, & who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Herman Melville
"We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those fibers, as sympathetic threads, our actions run as causes, and they come back to us as effects."
— Herman Melville
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Barbara De Angelis
"The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, your hearts, and your souls, the more you will strengthen the fabric of your relationship, and the more real moments you will experience together."
— Barbara De Angelis
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Rachel Naomi Remen
"When we know ourselves to be connected to all others, acting compassionately is simply the natural thing to do. "
— Rachel Naomi Remen
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"It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly."
— Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
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Albert Schweitzer
"We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness."
— Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
"Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me."
— Albert Schweitzer
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Albert Schweitzer
"Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are united to all life. From this knowledge comes our spiritual relationship with the universe."
— Albert Schweitzer
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"When we touch the place in our lives where sexuality and spirituality come together, we touch our wholeness and the fullness of our power, and at the same time our connection with a power larger than ourselves."
— Judith Plaskow (Standing Again at Sinai: Judaism from a Feminist Perspective)
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
"A single radio post still heard him. The only link between him and the world was a wave of music, a minor modulation. Not a lament, no cry, yet purest of sounds that ever spoke despair."
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (Night Flight)
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Mahatma Gandhi
"It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained."
— Mahatma Gandhi
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Sura Hart
"Listening is an attitude of the heart, a genuine desire to be with another which both attracts and heals. (attr to J. Isham)"
— Sura Hart (Respectful Parents, Respectful Kids: 7 Keys to Turn Family Conflict into Cooperation)
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"Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another."
— Terry Tempest Williams (Pieces of White Shell)
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John Milton
"Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good."
— John Milton
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