Connection Quotes

"Technology is teaching us to be human again."

Simon Mainwaring

"Every child deserves a champion – an adult who will never give up on them, who understands the power of connection and insists that they become the best that they can possibly be."

Rita Pierson

"Students don't care how much you know until they know how much you care."

"Kids don't learn from people they don't like."

Rita Pierson

"Death ends a life, not a relationship."

Morrie Schwartz

"Sympathy is the golden key that unlocks the hearts of others."

Samuel Smiles

"Those who love beyond the world cannot be separated by it."

William Penn

"Empathy is feeling with people."

Brené Brown

"Rarely can a response make something better. What makes something better is connection."

Brené Brown

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind."

John Donne

"Some people say they feel very small when they think about space. I felt more expansive, very connected to the universe."

Mae Jemison

"Those are the same stars, and that is the same moon, that look down upon your brothers and sisters, though they are ever so far away from us, and each other."

Sojourner Truth

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main."

John Donne

"Something there is that doesn't love a wall."

Robert Frost

"We expect more from technology and less from each other."

Sherry Turkle

"We are all connected; to each other, biologically. To the earth, chemically. To the rest of the universe, atomically."

Neil deGrasse Tyson

"A dog is a bond between strangers."

John Steinbeck

"Poetry is the revelation of a feeling that the poet believes to be interior and personal which the reader recognizes as his own."

Salvatore Quasimodo

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another, 'What! You too? I thought I was the only one.'"

"The most basic of all human needs is the need to understand and be understood."

Ralph Nichols

"Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force."

Brenda Ueland

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and creativity."

Brené Brown

"We are each other's harvest; we are each other's business; we are each other's magnitude and bond."

Gwendolyn Brooks