Connection to Earth Quotes

"Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse; that’s the story I want to tell."

- Elinor DeWire

"Lighthouses are endlessly suggestive signifiers of both human isolation and our ultimate connectedness to each other."

- Virginia Woolf

"I have seen the Lady April bringing the daffodils, Bringing the springing grass and the soft warm April rain."

- John Masefield

"The fastest way to change yourself is to hang out with people who are already the way you want to be."

- Reid Hoffman

"I found this breast cancer community to be such an amazing, powerful, compassionate alliance."

- Joan Lunden

"Cancer is really hard to go through and it's really hard to watch someone you love go through, and I know because I have been on both sides of the equation."

- Cynthia Nixon

"When you get diagnosed with cancer, there’s such a sense of loneliness, but what we need to know as people going through this is that you’re not alone."

- Christina Applegate

"Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart."

- Greg Anderson

"I think cancer is a hard battle to fight alone or with another person at your side, but I will say having someone to pick you up when you fall, stand by your side through every appointment and delivery of bad news, is priceless."

- Jenna Morasca

"Breast cancer is scary and no one understands that like another woman who has gone through it too."

- Mindy Sterling

"When it comes to breast cancer you’re not alone, and scary though it is, there's a network of amazing women to help you through it."

- Judy Blume

"It was a newfound level of support when I started to speak with other survivors... Knowing that they got to the other side, I knew that I too could get there."

- Samantha Harris

"A couple years ago I got breast cancer, and that was a good test, because I always said I'm not afraid of dying. And I wasn't. I mean, I felt, God, I've just joined a family of millions of women who have gone through this. And how interesting. What a journey this is going to be."

- Jane Fonda

"Cancer has shown me what family is. It showed me a love that I never knew really existed."

- Michael Douglas

"When someone has cancer, the whole family and everyone who loves them does, too."

- Terri Clark

"Cancer affects all of us, whether you're a daughter, mother, sister, friend, coworker, doctor, or patient."

- Jennifer Aniston

"A couple years ago I got breast cancer, and that was a good test, because I always said I’m not afraid of dying. And I wasn’t. I mean, I felt, God, I’ve just joined a family of millions of women who have gone through this. And how interesting. What a journey this is going to be."

- Jane Fonda

"People don’t take trips, trips take people."

- John Steinbeck

"To speak a language is to take on a world, a culture."

- Frantz Fanon

"Through we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If an event is meant to matter emotionally, symbolically, or mystically, food will be close at hand to sanctify and bind it."

- Diane Ackerman

"On your graduation day, we beam with pride, knowing that you have achieved something extraordinary. As you step into the next chapter of your life, just know that we are here, cheering you on every step of the way."

- Mom

"The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world."

- Michelle Obama

"You can’t propose a mutually beneficial business relationship until you can’t understand their business."

"Exploring the world hand in hand with you is my idea of paradise."

"Travelling with you is the best adventure I could ever ask for."

"Exploring new horizons with my favourite person by my side."

"You, me, and the open road: the perfect trio."

"You are my favourite travel companion."

"With you, every destination feels like home."