Ali Smith Quotes

Nothing to do with anything, something to do with everything.

We are each other's magnitude and bond.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it.

We are each other's destiny.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Man does not weave this web of life. He is merely a strand of it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect.

Eventually everything connects - people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se.

Society, like nature, is one body, really.

We don't accomplish anything in this world alone... and whatever happens is the result of the whole tapestry of one's life and all the weavings of individual threads form one to another that creates something.

In love the paradox occurs that two beings become one and yet remain two.

Everything happens through relationships.

Everything's interconnected. That's the way life is.

Seeing everything means recognizing the ultimate fact that all things that exist are mutually connected into a single whole, even if the connections between them are not yet known to us.

Everything is connected. There is nothing that is not connected.

Everything is connected to everything else.

There is no separation between mind and body... Self and other co-arise and fall away all the time.

Words want to find chimes with each other, things want to connect.

To view any individual as being independent of relationality is like viewing a point outside of a line, a line outside of a figure, a figure outside of a body.

The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

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.

I'm just another link in the chain.

The seed of everything is in everything else.

No one person is an island.