Connection to Earth Quotes

"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."

- Oscar Wilde

"A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud. I am arrived at last in the presence of a man so real and equal, that I may drop even those undermost garments of dissimulation, courtesy, and second thought, which men never put off, and may deal with him with the simplicity and wholeness with which one chemical atom meets another."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Real friendship, like real poetry, is extremely rare — and precious as a pearl."

- Tahar Ben Jelloun

"She is a friend of my mind. She gather me, man. The pieces I am, she gather them and give them back to me in all the right order."

- Toni Morrison

"Some of the biggest challenges in relationships come from the fact that most people enter a relationship in order to get something: they’re trying to find someone who’s going to make them feel good. In reality, the only way a relationship will last is if you see your relationship as a place that you go to give, and not a place that you go to take."

- Anthony Robbins

"Friendship is accepting a person with all their qualities — good and bad."

- Mohanlal

"Experts on romance say for a happy marriage there has to be more than a passionate love. For a lasting union, they insist, there must be a genuine liking for each other. Which, in my book, is a good definition for friendship."

- Marilyn Monroe

"A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face."

- Maya Angelou

"Since there is nothing so well worth having as friends, never lose a chance to make them."

- Francesco Guicciardini

"The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul."

- Shanna Rodriguez

"The kindest way of helping yourself is to find a friend."

- Ann Kaiser Stearns

"Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So conquer your fears and get out there."

- Tony Clark

"There is magic in long-distance friendships. They let you relate to other human beings in a way that goes beyond being physically together and is often more profound."

- Diana Cortes

"As long as we share the same sky and breathe the same air, we’re still together."

- Donna Lynn Hope

"A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Can miles truly separate you from friends…If you want to be with someone you love, aren’t you already there?"

- Richard Bach

"Good friends make everything easier."

- Aesop

"If you have two friends in your lifetime, you're lucky. If you have one good friend, you're more than lucky."

- S.E. Hinton

"Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only true friends leave footprints in your heart."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"A friend is one who walks in when others walk out."

- Walter Winchell

"A good friend is a connection to life – a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to sanity in a totally insane world."

- Lois Wyse

"We are all different, but we all have that same spark that makes us light up."

- Naoki Higashida

"I think soccer is a great game because it brings people together. It doesn’t matter where you come from or what language you speak, soccer unites everyone."

- Marco van Basten

"Football is the universal language."

- César Luis Menotti

"One love, one heart, one destiny."

- Bob Marley

"I am where I am because of the bridges that I crossed. Sojourner Truth was a bridge. Harriet Tubman was a bridge. Ida B. Wells was a bridge. Madame C. J. Walker was a bridge."

- Oprah Winfrey

"In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress."

- Booker T. Washington

"Let us keep the dance of rain our fathers kept and tread our dreams beneath the jungle sky."

- Arna Bontemps

"True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable."

"The beauty of soccer lies in the harmony of the team and the courage of the individual."