Quotes on Togetherness

We are not our brother’s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community.

At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

God's dream is that you and I and all of us will realize that we are family, that we are made for togetherness, for goodness, and for compassion.

You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at the same time you carry them with you in your heart, your mind, your stomach, because you do not just live in a world but a world lives in you.

Comedy is a tool of togetherness. It's a way of putting your arm around someone, pointing at something, and saying, 'Isn't it funny that we do that?' It's a way of reaching out.

The unblemished ideal exists only in happily-ever-after fairy tales. Ruth likes to say, "If two people agree on everything, one of them is unnecessary." The sooner we accept that as a fact of life, the better we will be able to adjust to each other and enjoy togetherness. "Happily incompatible" is a good adjustment.

It is necessary for all of us to awaken in ourselves this spirit of cooperation, for then it will not be a mere plan or agreement which causes us to work together, but an extraordinary feeling of togetherness, the sense of joy in being and doing together without any thought of reward or punishment.

The family is one of nature's masterpieces.

You were born together, and together you shall be forevermore. You shall be together when the white wings of death scatter your days. Ay, you shall be together even in the silent memory of God. But let there be spaces in your togetherness, and let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

If there ever comes a day when we can't be together, keep me in your heart. I'll stay there forever.

I sustain myself with the love of family.

There are two golden rules for an orchestra: start together and finish together. The public doesn't give a damn what goes on in between.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

A happy family is but an earlier heaven.

You and your sins must separate, or you and your God will never come together.

Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Love rests on two pillars: surrender and autonomy. Our need for togetherness exists alongside our need for separateness.

And let the winds of the heavens dance between you.

When 'I' replaced with 'We', even the illness becomes wellness.

There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.