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How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've con...

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Bell hooksAll About Love: New Visions

The intention and outcome of vulnerability is trust, intimacy and connection. The outcome of oversha...

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I define connection as the energy that exists between people when they feel seen, heard, and valued;...

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If you're thinking, 'Great! I just need to be a superhero to fight perfectionism,' I understand. Cou...

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We're wired for story. In a culture of scarcity and perfectionism, there's a surprisingly simple rea...

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Maybe looking away is about privilege. I need to think harder and longer about my choices and recogn...

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When you look away from a homeless person, you diminish their humanity and your own.

The rising strong reckoning has two deceptively simple parts: (1) engaging with our feelings, and (2...

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When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to ...

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Spirituality is recognizing and celebrating that we are all inextricably connected to each other by ...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

We cultivate love when we allow our most vulnerable and powerful selves to be deeply seen and known,...

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Brené BrownThe Gifts of Imperfection: Let Go of Who You Think You're Supposed to Be and Embrace Who You Are

In its encounter with Nature, science invariably elicits a sense of reverence and awe. The very act ...

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Carl SaganThe Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Of all my old associations, of all my old pursuits and hopes, of all the living and the dead world, ...

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Shared history was the coin of the realm.

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Chris MatthewsTip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

What would a person say to himself in the madness of sincerity? But it would be salvation. Thought t...

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For love, as she knew it now, was something without shame and without reserve, the possession of two...

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That's one of the greatest things about music. You can sing a song to 85,000 people and they'll sing...

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Not everything that happens during the day is an open portending a good or evil development in the f...

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To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than ...

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All modern humans are related to what scientists call "Mitochondrial Eve." This refers to our common...

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Desmond TutuThe Book of Forgiving: The Fourfold Path for Healing Ourselves and Our World

My son used to believe that he could look at a plane in flight and make it explode in midair by simp...

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Trying to meet new women, it's always a little more difficult as opposed to calling somebody I knew ...

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You occasionally hear it said that spiritual aspirants should drop everything and set off for the wo...

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Now, feel. I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other. And feel now. Thou hast no heart b...

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Ernest HemingwayFor Whom the Bell Tolls

Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause...

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Where is the land of Luthany,Where is the tract of Elenore?I am bound therefore.'Pierce thy heart to...

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One of the first and foremost duties of the teacher is not to give his students the impression that ...

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George PólyaHow to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

We affect one another quite enough merely by existing. Whenever the stars cross, or is it comets? fr...

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Only one person in 1000 is a bore, and HE is interesting because he is one person in 1000.

All you have to do is wait. Sit tight and wait for the right moment. Not try to change anything by f...

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I'm your phantom dance partner. I'm your shadow. I'm not anything more.

Like boarding a train running parallel. That's what disappearing is.

...no matter how advanced the system, no matter how precise, unless we have the will to communicate,...

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I just got my signals crossed. First thing, I have to untangle the connections. Otherwise, I come aw...

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People leave traces of themselves where they feel most comfortable, most worthwhile.

We're on the same wavelength. We're connected that way, even if I'm away from her.

Can I be honest with you, Mr. Wind-Up Bird? I mean, really, really, really honest? Sometimes I get s...

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We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and alo...

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Ye cannot live for yourselves; a thousand fibres connect you with your fellow-men, and along those f...

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We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men; and among those...

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Why was it, do you think, I was able to recognise you and understand you?""Why, Hermine? Tell me!""B...

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There are people who have the capacity to imagine themselves as someone else, there are people who h...

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Weary looked at him and shook his head and put the tailgate up and drove down the gravel towards the...

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For those we are born to speak to we need prepare nothing, the lines are ready, everything is there.

It's always been most important for me to figure out "my space" rather than trying to check out what...

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I've always enjoyed feeling a connection to the avant-garde, such as Dada and surrealism and pop art...

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Maybe a good goal would be to just at least always try to create something good. Like something that...

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In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...

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The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers & cities; but to know someone who thin...

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Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnec...

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You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world wi...

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We will have to give up the hope that, if we try hard, we somehow will always do right by our childr...

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We need to bridge our sense of loneliness and disconnection with a sense of community and continuity...

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The only thing that had saved her then was knitting. In prison she had become a compulsive knitter. ...

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He liked the electric darkness and the hot dirty air and the blasts of noise and traffic and the man...

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The only difference between man and man all the world over is one of degree, and not of kind, even a...

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It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to...

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It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable net...

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The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a gal...

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From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was domi...

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So close that your hand upon my chest is mine,so close that your eyes close with my sleep.

I love her more than just a little. I think it's because we're both somewhat broken, in our own odd ...

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How many people did you know that refracted your own light to you? People were more often – he searc...

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A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an id...

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We must develop as quickly as possible technologies that make possible a direct connection between b...

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And all of the late, late-night talks, when you're not stoned, but you're so tired you might as well...

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Do stuff. be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration's shove or society's kiss on your forehe...

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Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with an...

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Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one...

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Tom StoppardRosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Any fact becomes important when it’s connected to another. The connection changes the perspective; i...

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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.

The spiritual and the physical had been blended in us with a perfection that must remain incomprehen...

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He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he ...

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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambas...

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We are like islands in the sea, separate on the surface but connected in the deep.

There are strangers, people we don't know, who care about is.

When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man c...

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We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so...

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Man can no longer live for himself alone. We must realize that all life is valuable and that we are ...

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Now that I think of it, she looked splendid. I wish I had met her somewhere else. I wish I had appre...

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Narcissism and the Confederate dead cannot be connected logically, or even historically; even were t...

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Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that rememb...

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Your passion is your connection to God.

Yoga is establishing an harmonious connection to your inner world with outer world.

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Amit RayYoga The Science of Well-Being

It is the wilderness inthe mind, the desert wastes in the heart through which one wanders lost and a...

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The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid ...

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The past,' he thought, 'is linked with the present by an unbroken chain of events flowing one out of...

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Anton ChekhovThe Witch and Other Stories

Marriage is never static. There are peaks and troughs, cycles. It is easy to forget that this shifti...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeMama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

Time, let me vanish. Then what we separate by our very presence can come together.

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Audrey NiffeneggerThe Time Traveler's Wife

The more connections you and your lover make, not just between your bodies, but between your minds, ...

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I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen e...

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Barbara EhrenreichLiving with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything

A thought that stayed with me was that I had entered a private place in the earth. I had seen expose...

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I do not know, really, how we will survive without places like the Inner Gorge of the Grand Canyon t...

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