Connection to Earth Quotes

"Every piece of the universe, even the tiniest little snow crystal, matters somehow. I have a place in the pattern, and so do you. Thinking of you this holiday season!"

- T.A. Barron

"Find a group of people who challenge and inspire you, spend a lot of time with them, and it will change your life."

- Amy Poehler

"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing."

- Jesus

"The game of basketball has been everything to me. My place of refuge, place I've always gone where I needed comfort and peace. It's been the site of intense pain and the most intense feelings of joy and satisfaction. It's a relationship that has evolved over time, given me the greatest respect and love for the game."

- Michael Jordan

""When someone who loves you hugs you, hug them back with two arms—don’t do the one-arm hug, because when you hug someone with two arms, it allows you to lean on somebody, and we all need someone to lean on.""

- Sandra Bullock

""The best remedy for those who are frightened, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be alone with the sky, nature, and God. For only then can you feel that everything is as it should be and that God wants people to be happy amid nature’s beauty and simplicity.""

- Anne Frank

"There's no place like home."

- Dorothy, The Wizard of Oz

"Come out here where the roses have opened. Let soul and world meet."

- Rumi

"A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."

- Maya Angelou

"With those who dont give a damn about baseball, I can only sympathize. I do not resent them. I am even willing to concede that many of them are physically clean, good to their mothers and in favor of world peace. But while the game is on, I cant think of anything to say to them."

- Art Hill

"Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead."

- Jackie Robinson

"Dont tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball."

- Pete Hamill

""Baseball is not a conventional industry. It belongs neither to the players nor management, but to all of us. It is our national pastime, our national symbol, and our national treasure.""

- Charles Kuralt

""Baseball is a universal language. Catch the ball, throw the ball, hit the ball""

- Pete Rose

""Baseball is an American icon. It is the Statue of Liberty, the bald eagle, 'In God We Trust,' Mount Rushmore, ice cream, apple pie, hot dogs, and rally monkeys. Baseball is America.""

- Victor Baltov, Jr.

""Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.""

- Juliana Hatfield

""Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.""

- Jim Sensenbrenner

"We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community."

- Dorothy Day

"Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay."

- Rollo May

"I believe that dialogue is the key to breaking through our tendency to separate and isolate. Dialogue changes isolation and loneliness into connection and interdependence. This, I believe, is the essence of Buddhism."

- Vinessa Shaw

"Walking alone, I am listening to a deeper way. Suddenly all my ancestors are behind me. Be still, they say. Watch and listen. You are the result of the love of thousands."

- Linda Hogan

"The human body is the best picture of the human soul."

- Tony Robbins

"Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can; and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys."

- Alphonse de Lamartine

"What was important wasn't the fireworks, it was that we were together this evening, together in this place, looking up into the sky at the same time."

- Banana Yoshimoto

"Truth is, I’ll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour."

- Tom Hanks

"In diversity, there is beauty and there is strength."

- Maya Angelou

"The beauty you see in me is a reflection of you."

- Rumi

"Music does bring people together. It allows us to experience the same emotions. People everywhere are the same in heart and spirit. No matter what language we speak, what color we are, the form of our politics or the expression of our love and our faith, music proves: We are the same."

- John Denver

"The true beauty of music is that it connects people. It carries a message, and we, the musicians, are the messengers."

- Roy Ayers

"With true friends…even water drunk together is sweet enough."