“Even the alleged benefits of war, so far as more than alleged, spring from the fact that conflict of peoples at least enforces intercourse between them and thus accidentally enables them to learn from one another, and thereby to expand their horizons. Travel, economic and commercial tendencies, have at present gone far to break down external barriers; to bring peoples and classes into closer and more perceptible connection with one another.” WarFactsClassBreakGoneEconomicConflictBenefitsSpringConnectionsTendenciesBarriersHorizonBreaking DownIntercourse Book:Democracy And Education Source: Democracy And Education
“Whenever I read a poem that moves me, I know I'm not alone in the world. I feel a connection to the person who wrote it, knowing that he or she has gone through something similar to what I've experienced, or felt something like what I have felt. And their poem gives me hope and courage, because I know that they survived, that their life force was strong enough to turn experience into words and shape it into meaning and then bring it toward me to share.” KnowsWorldGivingFeelsPersonsEnoughMovingTurnsStrongForceFeltGoneKnowingShareShapesConnectionsGive MeSurvivedNot AloneStrong Enough Author:Gregory Orr
“Night and day I pondered until I saw the connection between the justice of God and the statement that 'the just shall live by his faith.' Then I grasped that the justice of God is that righteousness by which through grace and sheer mercy God justifies us through faith. Thereupon I felt myself to be reborn and to have gone through open doors into paradise.” NightFeltJusticeGoneSawsGraceDoorsConnectionsMercyStatementsParadiseJustifyLive ByRighteousnessSheerRebornJustice Of God Author:Martin Luther
“When we were visiting New York City, I took my kids to the same playground where I went growing up. It was fun to feel that connection of having gone there as a kid and being there as a parent.” FeelsKidsFunParentCitiesGoneGrowing UpGrowingNew YorkConnectionsNew York CityVisitingBeing TherePlaygrounds Author:Ben Stiller
“I think, in fact, that the connections between philosophy and cognitive science haven't gone far enough, metaphysicians should be working closely with cognitive scientists when they try to understand the sources of our experience of parts of the world such as its causal and temporal parts.” ThinkingWorldShouldTryingEnoughPhilosophyFactsGoneHavensSourceConnectionsScientistCognitiveCognitive Science Author:L.A. Paul
“Meditation has been really helpful for me and music and great books. Deep down, it's just that I feel a connection to music and books when I can find that other people have gone through similar things.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensI CanBookGoneMeditationConnectionsHelpfulDeep DownGreat Book Author:Mason Jennings
“The local grocery store was a gathering, a community place. You knew the owner, if you didn't have any money they'd let you go for a couple days. You talked. It was a friendly place. Supermarkets are totally impersonal. I mean, you may say hello to the checkout girl or something, but the personal connections are all gone.” IfsMayMeanGirlCommunityGoneCoupleConnectionsStoresLocalsOwnersFriendlyHelloGatheringGroceriesSupermarketsGrocery StoresLetting You GoPersonal ConnectionCheckouts Author:Noam Chomsky
“I think having not only personal connections with friends and family I'm able to pull from, but having a connection with so many people through social media, it also feels like I have a relationship with those people that follow me. And feel that what I'm going through, they've gone through something similar, and that's why we've connected. And they're the ones that make it into that body of work that represents them or that time in their life, because we've found each other.” PeopleThinkingFeelsBodyAbleFoundSocialGoneMediaConnectionsSocial MediaConnectedFamily And FriendsFollow MePersonal Connection Author:Hailee Steinfeld
“These were the lovely bones that had grown around my absence: the connections-sometimes tenuous, sometimes made at great cost, but often magnificent-that happened after I was gone. And I began to see things in a way that let me hold the world without me in it. The events that my death wrought were merely the bones of a body that would become whole at some unpredictable time in the future. The price of what I came to see as this miraculous body had been my life.” WorldWayMadeSometimesWholeBodyGoneHappenedEventsCostConnectionsLet MeBonesAbsenceLovelyMagnificentUnpredictableMiraculousLovely Bones Author:Alice Sebold
“Thunder is no longer the voice of an angry god... No river contains a spirit... no snake the embodiment of wisdom, no mountain cave the home of a great demon. No voices now speak to man from stones, plants and animals, nor does he speak to them thinking they can hear. His contact with nature has gone, and with it has gone the profound emotional energy that this symbolic connection supplied.” ThinkingMenDoeHomeSpiritEnergySpeakVoiceAnimalGoneEmotionalMountainRiversStonesConnectionsAngryPlantProfoundContactDemonSnakesCavesThunderSymbolicEmbodimentPlants And AnimalsEmotional Energy Author:Carl Jung