“The retirement of Athanasius, which ended only with the life of Constantius, was spent, for the most part, in the society of the monks, who faithfully served him as guards, as secretaries, and as messengers; but the importance of maintaining a more intimate connection with the catholic party tempted him, whenever the diligence of the pursuit was abated, to emerge from the desert, to introduce himself into Alexandria, and to trust his person to the discretion of his friends and adherents.” PersonsPartyHistoryConnectionsImportanceCatholicPursuitDesertIntimateRetirementIntroducingSecretaryTemptedMonkMaintainingDiligenceDiscretionMessengersRoman EmpireAlexandria Book:Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Source: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
“There's nothing tiny or insignificant. Everything is significant. And everything flows on the same basis of Laws. Whether you are looking at world events or something that's happening in your kitchen drawer, broad and important, or narrow and seemingly insignificant, there's potential for connection or disconnection in either case. And it is only the connection or the disconnection that is of really any importance.” WorldImportantLawUniverseCasesEventsHappeningsFlowConnectionsImportanceBasesTinySignificantKitchenBroadsInsignificantDrawersDisconnectionLearn To AppreciateWorld Events Author:Esther Hicks
“I feel it's my duty as a human being, as a person who is trying - like everybody else who thinks about the state of the world - to enhance the importance of multicultural connection.” ThinkingWorldFeelsTryingHumansPersonsStatesHuman BeingsDutyConnectionsImportanceMulticultural Author:Paulo Coelho
“I'm still a researcher. The best way to explain it is that I trusted myself deeply as a professional, but I did not have a lot of self-trust personally. When I started learning all of these things about the value and the importance of belonging, vulnerability, connection, self-kindness and self-compassion, I trusted what I was learning - again, I know I'm a good researcher. When those things and wholeheartedness started to emerge with all these different properties, I knew I had to listen. I'd heard these messages before personally but I didn't trust myself there.” KnowsWayStillsDifferentSelfValuesCompassionKindnessHeardMessagesConnectionsImportancePropertyBest WayVulnerabilityBelongingTrustedResearchersSelf CompassionSelf TrustTrust MyselfWholeheartedness Author:Brené Brown
“There's so much importance in honoring your everyday hero. It doesn't take money. It doesn't take connections. What matters is that people get involved. Whether your passion is gun control or food or whatever it may be, everybody needs to stop being so self-absorbed.” PeopleNeedsMaySelfMatterPassionHeroInvolvedGunConnectionsImportanceEverydayWhat MattersGun ControlGet InvolvedSelf Absorbed Author:Debi Mazar
“I believe in the importance of individuality, but in the midst of grief I also find myself wanting connection - wanting to be reminded that the sadness I feel is not just mine but ours.” FeelsBelieveI BelieveGriefSadnessMinesConnectionsImportanceIndividualityI Believe InMidst Author:Meghan O'Rourke
“The importance of our connection, what it meant to find each other again, the way it made what happened to us and between us not be a waste, not be for nothing. He would know, he had to know, that not saying good-bye would be the worst end of all.” KnowsWayMadeEndsWould BeHappenedWorstWasteConnectionsImportanceByeGood ByeSaying Good Bye Author:Sara Zarr
“One of the greatest barriers to connection is the cultural importance we place on "going it alone." Somehow we've come to equate success with not needing anyone. Many of us are willing to extend a helping hand, but we're very reluctant to reach out for help when we need it ourselves. It's as if we've divided the world into "those who offer help" and "those who need help." The truth is that we are both.” IfsWorldNeedsHelpingHandsWillingTruth IsOffersConnectionsImportanceBarriersDividedReach OutReluctantHelping HandNeed Help Author:Brené Brown
“The relative importance of the white and gray matter is often misunderstood. Were it not for the manifold connection of the nerve cells in the cortex by the tens of millions of fibres which make up the under-estimated white matter, such a brain would be useless as a telephone or telegraph station with all the interconnecting wires destroyed.” ImportantMatterWould BeScienceWhiteBrainMillionsConnectionsImportanceDestroyedCellsUselessStationsNervesGrayRelativeTelephonesMisunderstoodWireManifoldTelegraphGray Matter Author:Edward Anthony Spitzka
“Regarded in isolation, an idea may be quite insignificant, and venturesome in the extreme, but it may acquire importance from an idea which follows it; perhaps, in a certain collocation with other ideas, which may seem equally absurd, it may be capable of furnishing a very serviceable link.” MayIdeasSeemsCertainCapableConnectionsImportanceMadnessExtremesInventionAbsurdJudgementIsolationAcquireLinksInsignificant Author:Friedrich Schiller