Connectedness Quotes

“We can give happiness a chance: happiness is learnable. Life is a choice and happiness is a question of focusing, hearing and seeing the right things behind the appearances. It is a matter of finding out, differencing worthiness and irrelevance, connectedness and distantness, warmth and aloofness, brightness and dimness. Happiness is the lucky potential to steer friskily along the cliffs of the unknown avoiding the obstacles of narcissism and conceit. ( " Happiness blowing in the wind. " )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“You are not always right. It’s not always about being right. The best thing you can offer others is understanding. Being an active listener is about more than just listening, it is about reciprocating and being receptive to somebody else. Everybody has woes. Nobody is safe from pain. However, we all suffer in different ways. So learn to adapt to each person, know your audience and reserve yourself for people who have earned the depths of you”
― Mohadesa Najumi

“I don't trust anybody who isn't a little bit neurotic”
― Mohadesa Najumi

“I take it as a compliment when somebody calls me crazy. I would be offended if I was one of the sheeple, one of the sleepwalkers in the matrix or part of the collective hallucination we call 'normal”
― Mohadesa Najumi

“I am a habitual rule-breaker”
― Mohadesa Najumi

“I have been at war with parts of myself for so long”
― Mohadesa Najumi

“Your fear of becoming a cliche is what turns you into one. If you remove the fear, we are all really walking contradictions, hypocrites and paradoxical cliches”
― Mohadesa Najumi

“...the Ultimate Truth: nothing exists in the universe that is separate from anything else. Everything is intrinsically connected, irrevocably interdependent, interactive, interwoven into the fabric of all of life.”
― Neale Donald Walsch, Conversations With God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 2

“As an empath, you are the mystic of today’s world. As a multi-sensory being, you are born with the refined ability to connect to the Soul essence of those around you.”
― Aletheia Luna, Awakened Empath: The Ultimate Guide to Emotional, Psychological and Spiritual Healing

“Speak not of peoples and laws and
Kingdoms, for the whole earth is
My birthplace and all humans are
My brothers.”
― Kahlil Gibran, The Treasured Writings of Kahlil Gibran

“If they criticise you before they cheer you on, they are not your people. Simple.”
― Nikki Rowe

“Building relationships is not about transactions—it’s about connections.”
― Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability

“[People] are beginning to awaken to an idea we gave meaning to in the sixties: We are one people, one family, the human family, and what affects one of us affects us all.”
― John Lewis, Across That Bridge: A Vision for Change and the Future of America

“We all come from different paths in life but we can find common ground.”
― Nanette Mathews

“When we come from an authentic, genuine place in ourselves, our efforts to connect with people work to their fullest. Our relationships develop more easily and last longer, and we feel better about the people”
― Michelle Tillis Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability

“If emotions were universal, then in one sense he was not alone, never had been alone, and never could be alone....No pain or happiness was unique. All humanity drank from the same river of emotion; and by drinking, every race, religion, and nationality became one indivisible species.”
― Dean Koontz, Key to Midnight / Shattered / House of Thunder

“All stories are connected. In the end everything is connected.”
― José Eduardo Agualusa, The Book of Chameleons

“I stretched out my arms and laid my palms on the earth, and, yes, the rocking persisted, the rocking of the island as it sailed through the sea and the night bearing into the future its freight of gulls and sparrows and fleas and apes and castaways, all unconscious now, save me. I fell asleep smiling.”
― J.M. Coetzee, Foe

“The oneness in Jesus Christ crosses all boundaries and separations. Anyone with the faith of Jesus Christ can immediately enjoy the innate oneness with another who has the faith of Jesus, regardless of differing political or doctrinal views.”
― Henry Hon

“The essence of all spirituality and religion is to gaze into the endless unknown and unknowable with the capacity for awe rather than terror, for a willingness to feel connected rather than separate from the immense all.”
― Ashavan

“To be truly good means more than not robbing people . . . To be truly good means more than being righteously religious . . . To be truly good means being a good neighbor. . . . And to be a good neighbor means recognizing that there are ultimately no strangers. . . . Everybody is my neighbor! . . . Everybody is my brother! . . . There are no isolated monads wounded on the other side of the street! . . . We're all connected.”
― Brian D. McLaren, A New Kind of Christian: A Tale of Two Friends on a Spiritual Journey

“We have the St. Vitus' dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still”
― Henry David Thoreau, Where I Lived, and What I Lived For

“When we spend time with people who live in extreme poverty, and we listen to their stories, it creates dignity and connectedness - something they usually lack.”
― Chris Marlow, Doing Good Is Simple: Making a Difference Right Where You Are

“After all, there are those people we like and dislike, there are those people we love, and then there are those we recognize. These are the unbreakable connections.”
― Abigail Thomas, What Comes Next and How to Like It

“Meditation is about mindfulness and learning to strip away the illusion, revealing your authentic self and connectedness to everything and everyone.”
― Nanette Mathews

“When I live in the present moment my intent is to be vibrationally aware and united with everything.”
― Debbie A. Anderson

“The universal mind has all the knowledge, discoveries of the present and the future. It’s up to us when we access the available resources which are waiting for us to move forward.”
― Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment

“People cannot escape the looming specter of a deathwatch and the imposing emptiness that comes with the termination of their existence. People resist going silently into the night. We seek to howl at the moon and make known our search for a diagrammatic overture that voices our unquantifiable existence. Terrified of squandering our existence, we each seek to break out from our muteness and strike an accord with our brothers and sisters whom share our inherent desire to reach a global consilience.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“If I can reach further, it is by connecting with influential nodes”
― Gohar F. Khan, Digital Analytics for Marketing

“The relationships that you genuinely care about are the ones that will form the strongest network you can build.”
― Michelle Lederman, 11 Laws of Likability