Connection to Earth Quotes

"Home is everything you can walk to."

- Jerry Spinelli

"A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are cathedrals of the mind; hospitals of the soul; theme parks of the imagination. On a cold rainy island, they are the only sheltered public spaces where you are not a consumer, but a citizen instead."

- Caitlin Moran

"Public libraries are the sole community centers left in America. The degree to which a branch of the local library is connected to the larger culture is a reflection of the degree to which the community itself is connected to the larger culture."

- Russell Banks

"There is a hunger in this digital age to hear authors together, to participate in programs, to just be in a place, a community space."

- Carla Hayden

"Coffee is the common man's gold, and like gold it brings to every man the feeling of luxury and nobility. Coffee differs from pure, gentle milk only in its taste and color...... Where coffee is served there is grace and splendor and friendship and happiness."

- Sheik Ansari Djezeri Hanball Abd-al-Kadir

"Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard to sleep after."

- Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"Nothing takes me closer to the world than a cup of tea. Every cup is a bridge."

- Bhuwan Thapaliya

"Deep conversations with the right people, like a rich cup of coffee, are best savored slowly—where every word warms the heart and each pause nurtures understanding."

- Bhuwan Thapaliya

"People are all we’ve got. So grab the night by its nipples and go flirt with someone"

- Belinda

"Architecture is about public spaces held by buildings."

- Richard Rogers

"We need 4 hugs a day for survival. We need 8 hugs a day for maintenance. We need 12 hugs a day for growth."

- Virginia Satir

"When we encounter an unexpected challenge of threat, the only way to save ourselves is to hold on tight to the people around us and not let go."

- Shawn Achor

"The American cultural ideal of the self-made man, of everyone standing on his own feet, is as tragic a picture as the initiative-destroying dependence on a benevolent despot. We all need each other. This type of interdependence is the greatest challenge to the maturity of individual and group functioning."

- Kurt Lewin

"For to have a deep attachment for a person (or a place or thing) is to have taken them as the terminating object of our instinctual responses."

- John Bowlby

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

- Rumi

"I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together while time stands still. Cozy couples lazily meandered the streets and children trudged sleds and chased snowballs. No one seemed to be in a rush to experience anything other than the glory of the day, with each other, whenever and however it happened."

- Rachel Cohn

""Coffee is a universal language that overcomes cultural barriers: a hot cup can unite people from every corner of the world.""

"Coffee is the best thing in life because it brings people together."

- Unknown

"Remember, no man is a failure who has friends."

"We all know the truth: more connects us than separates us. But in times of crisis the wise build bridges, while the foolish build barriers. We must find a way to look after one another, as if we were one single tribe."

"Good friends and a cup of coffee are all the therapy you need."

"Coffee and friends make the perfect blend."

"Coffee connects us all—one sip at a time."

"Best things in life: friends who love coffee."

"You, me, and a cup of coffee—perfect trio."

"Coffee tastes better when shared with friends."

"Friends don’t let friends drink bad coffee."

"The strongest drug that exists for a human is another human being"

"It's exciting when you find parts of yourself in someone else"

"Through others we become ourselves."