Ann Brashares Quotes

Perhaps we too seldom reflect how much the life of Nature is one with the life of man, how unimportant or indeed merely seeming, the difference between them.

You're not a wave, you're a part of the ocean.

No man is an Island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.

Our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest. The maple and the pine may whisper to each other with their leaves ... But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground, and the islands also hang together through the ocean's bottom.

I am constantly preoccupied with how to remove distance so that we can all come closer together, so that we can all begin to sense we are the same, we are one.

There are moments when the heart is generous, and then it knows that for better or worse our lives are woven together here, one with one another and with the place and all the living things.

We are all part of one another.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

We're all inseparably part of each other. We all coexist in each other.

I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.

There is no separation. We are all from the same place. As long as there is respect and acknowledgement of connections, things continue working. When that stops we all die.

Unity in variety is the plan of the universe.

Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality-not as we expect it to be but as it is-is to see that unless we live for each other and in and through each other, we do not really live very satisfactorily; that there can really be life only where there really is, in just this sense, love.

We can be human only together. A person is a person to other persons. We so desperately long for all of us to learn that we are meant for one another. We are meant for complementarity.

We are united with all life that is in nature. Man can no longer live his life for himself alone.

There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself. All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. When you understand this, you begin experiencing life - and treating each other - in a new way.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

All things share the same breath - the beast, the tree, the man... the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

We are one, after all, you and I, together we suffer, together exist and forever will recreate each other.

Love is the affinity which links and draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent of universal synthesis.

Ye are the fruits of one tree and the leaves of one branch.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.