Natalie Jeremijenko Quotes

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

I am two with nature.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

No one can live without relationship. You may withdraw into the mountains, become a monk, a sannyasi, wander off into the desert by yourself, but you are related. You cannot escape from that absolute fact. You cannot exist in isolation.

I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

I don't want to be alone my whole life. It is much more fun to share what you have than to have it to yourself. And it isn't like I don't have love in my life. I have a lot of friends who love me and who I love.

Your connections with other people are important, our connection to the earth.

Love is union with somebody, or something, outside oneself, under the condition of retaining the separateness and integrity of one's own self.

I just think that the only way we come to ourselves is through each other.

Life is lived in common, but not in community.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.

When you acknowledge the integrity of your solitude, and settle into its mystery, your relationships with others take on a new warmth, adventure and wonder.

Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.

I'm not an isolated person. The more I connect to people, the more I have the feeling that things work.

I'm just another link in the chain.

People need to be made conscious of a very simple reality: we have no choice but to share this planet, this small blue sphere floating in the vast reaches of space, with all of our fellow 'passengers.'

Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

You know, we have our differences, everybody does, honest, real differences, but I do believe strongly that we as neighbors are drawn together far more than we're driven apart.

No man is an island. No man stands alone.

There cannot be enduring peace, prosperity, equality and brotherhood in this world if our aims are so separate and divergent, if we do not accept that in the end we are people, all alike, sharing the Earth among ourselves and also with other sentient beings, all of whom have an equal role and stake in the state of this planet and its players.

There is this intimacy still in Botswana. It's a country of just under two million people, and there's this sense of connectedness, in that people tend to be related to one another.

What I know now is that we're all interconnected and that's a really beautiful thing. We have links to everyone else in our lives and in the world. Different people have different journeys for different reasons. You can't judge, but you can celebrate that there are connections everywhere.

No one person is an island.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.