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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 will live as one.
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dreams
hope
inspirational
dreamers
connection
dreaming
beatles
peace
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John Lennon |
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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.
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friendship
love
inspirational
community
connection
goethe
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Goethe |
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To see and feel one's beloved naked for the first time is one of life's pure, irreducible epiphanies. If there is a true religion in the universe, it must include that truth of contact or be forever hollow. To make love to the one true person who deserves that love is one of the few absolute rewards of being a human being, balancing all of the pain, loss, awkwardness, loneliness, idiocy, compromise, and clumsiness that go with the human condition. To make love to the right person makes up for a lot of mistakes.
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sex
inspiration
religion
happiness
love
connection
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Dan Simmons |
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Only connect!
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connection
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E.M. Forster |
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Any fact becomes important when it's connected to another.
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fiction
fact
connection
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Umberto Eco |
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The artistic image is not intended to represent the thing itself, but, rather, the reality of the force the thing contains.
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leopold-senghor
connection
perception
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James Baldwin |
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I think there is a song out there to describe just about any situation.
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musician
world
poetry
humanity
music
songs
life
truth
inspirational
lyrics
songwriting
art
connection
song-lyrics
artist
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Criss Jami |
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"How different things might be if, rather than saying "I think I'm in love," we were saying "I've connected with someone in a way that makes me think I'm on the way to knowing love." Or if instead of saying "I am in love" we say "I am loving" or "I will love." Our patterns around romantic love are unlikely to change if we do not change our language."
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romance
love
connection
communication
language
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Bell Hooks |
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From the moment I met you, your personality had the most extraordinary influence over me. I was dominated, soul brain and power.
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personality
kindred-spirits
brain
connection
power
soul
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Oscar Wilde |
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The more I read, the more I felt connected across time to other lives and deeper sympathies. I felt less isolated. I wasn't floating on my little raft in the present; there were bridges that led over to solid ground. Yes, the past is another country, but one that we can visit, and once there we can bring back the things we need. Literature is common ground. It is ground not managed wholly by commercial interests, nor can it be strip-mined like popular culture--exploit the new thing then move on. There's a lot of talk about the tame world versus the wild world. It is not only a wild nature that we need as human beings; it is the untamed open space of our imaginations. Reading is where the wild things are.
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literature
reading
freedom
imagination
wildness
connection
human-nature
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Jeanette Winterson |
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It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.
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silence
life
connection
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Tom Perrotta |
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It's not about having things figured out, or about communicating with other people, trying to make them understand what you understand. It's about a chicken dinner at a drive-in. A soft pillow. Things that don't need explaining.
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understanding
love
connection
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Ann Beattie |
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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.
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story
art
connection
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Terry Tempest Williams |
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The gravitational waves of the first detection were generated by a collision of black holes in a galaxy 1.3 billion light-years away, and at a time when Earth was teeming with simple, single-celled organisms. While the ripple moved through space in all directions, Earth would, after another 800 million years, evolve complex life, including flowers and dinosaurs and flying creatures, as well as a branch of vertebrates called mammals. Among the mammals, a sub-branch would evolve frontal lobes and complex thought to accompany them. We call them primates. A single branch of these primates would develop a genetic mutation that allowed speech, and that branch--Homo Sapiens--would invent agriculture and civilization and philosophy and art and science. All in the last ten thousand years. Ultimately, one of its twentieth-century scientists would invent relativity out of his head, and predict the existence of gravitational waves. A century later, technology capable of seeing these waves would finally catch up with the prediction, just days before that gravity wave, which had been traveling for 1.3 billion years, washed over Earth and was detected. Yes, Einstein was a badass.
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evolution
science
interconnection
einstein
the-universe
gravity
connection
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Neil deGrasse Tyson |
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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 appreciated her as she deserved. I wish that everything had gone differently.
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chaddeleys-and-flemings
connection
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Alice Munro |
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Have you ever looked at, say, a picture or a great building or read a paragraph in a book and felt the world suddenly expand and, in the same instant, contract and harden into a kernel of perfect purity? Do you know what I mean? Everything suddenly fits, everything's in its place.
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words
literature
reading
connection
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Carol Shields |
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"A few years ago I heard Jerome Kagan, a distinguished emeritus professor of child psychology at Harvard, say to the Dalai Lama that for every act of cruelty in this world there are hundreds of small acts of kindness and connection. His conclusion: "To be benevolent rather than malevolent is probably a true feature of our species." 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. Numerous studies of disaster response around the globe have shown that social support is the most powerful protection against becoming overwhelmed by stress and trauma. Social support is not the same as merely being in the presence of others. The critical issue is reciprocity: being truly heard and seen by the people around us, feeling that we are held in someone else's mind and heart. For our physiology to calm down, heal, and grow we need a visceral feeling of safety. No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love: These are complex and hard-earned capacities. You don't need a history of trauma to feel self-conscious and even panicked at a party with strangers - but trauma can turn the whole world into a gathering of aliens."
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connection
trauma
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Bessel A. van der Kolk |
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The interior life expands and fills; it approaches the edge of skin; it thickens with its own vivid story; it even begins to hear rumors, from beyond the horizon skin's rim, of nations and wars. You wake one day and discover your grandmother; you wake another day and notice, like any curious naturalist, the boys.
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connection
boys
memoir
sexuality
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Annie Dillard |
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He had wished me well in finding my own fate to follow, and I never doubted his sincerity. But it had taken me years to accept that his absence in my life was a deliberate finality, an act he had chosen, a thing completed even as some part of my soul still dangled, waiting for his return. That, I think, is the shock of any relationship ending. It is realizing that what is still an ongoing relationship to someone is, for the other person, something finished and done with.
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pain
relationship
friendship
love
done
choose
connection
depart
final
finish
leave
part-ways
separate
wait
well
return
over
sever
wish
soul
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Robin Hobb |
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It is possible to adore those newly come into your world, to envision, no matter how late in the day, a happily entwined future with those who have not been part of your past.
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relationships
love
connection
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Mohsin Hamid |
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Though she has trouble deciphering other people's facial expressions, her face is an open book and no one would ever have trouble understanding hers.
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understanding
expression
connection
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Tracey Garvis Graves |
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I don't think you have ever really inhabited a city until you have walked down the street and seen every single person, no matter how unlikely or different from yourself, how disheveled or foreign, as a potential ally or recruit.
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connection
city
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Barbara Ehrenreich |
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Now, when she felt so deeply connected to him, they were finally estranged.
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estranged
star-crossed-lovers
the-message-to-the-planet
iris-murdoch
connection
unrequited-love
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Iris Murdoch |
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Just as mind rises up and rebels at un unskillful attempt to subdue it in meditation, a relationship will fall apart if the partners are not respectful of each other's differences. <...> Separateness and connection make each other possible; they are not mutually exclusive.
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relationships
love
couples
separateness
romantic-love
differences
connection
desire
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Mark Epstein |
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He was always the bridge, between men as well as between ideas.
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evangelism
compromise
engagement
connection
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Barbara W. Tuchman |
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Another extraordinary similarity concerns the presence of Seven Sages in both the Sumerian and Vedic traditions. Most ancient societies, I concede, had their sages or seers or wise men -- in India they were, and still are, called . But it seems to me to be stretching coincidence too far to find a group specifically named the 'Seven Sages' prominently associated with two separate ancient cultures and to imagine that this did not come about through some sort of connection. In the case of Sumer the Seven Sages were depicted as amphibian, 'fish-garbed' beings who emerged from the sea in antediluvian times to teach wisdom to mankind. In the case of the the focus is not on the antediluvian period but on the flood itself and those antediluvians who are claimed to have survived it, namely Manu and the Seven Sages.
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wisdom
seven-sages
deluges
connection
knowledge
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Graham Hancock |
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Do you ever think? What? They were lying together on the sofa that had always been there, the crappy beat-up biscuit-colored sofa that was managing, as best it could, its promotion from threadbare junk to holy artifact. You know. What if I don't know? You fucking do. Okay, yeah. Yes. I, too, wonder if Dad worried so much about every single little goddamned thing . . . That he summoned it. Thanks. I couldn't say it. That some god or goddess heard him, one time too many, getting panicky about whether she'd been carjacked at the mall, or had, like, hair cancer . . . That they delivered the think even he couldn't imagine worrying about. It's not true. I know. But we're both thinking about it. That may have been their betrothal. That may have been when they took their vows: We are no longer siblings, we are mates, starship survivors, a two-man crew wandering the crags and crevices of a planet that may not be inhabited by anyone but us. We no longer need, or want, a father. Still, they really have to call him. It's been way too long.
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relationship
family
life
mates
partner
connection
brothers
siblings
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Michael Cunningham |