Antonio Monteiro Quotes

I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.

Our community of contagion really is a world community.

I always like things that shrink the world for me, that make me feel a strange connection, not just to the person that I'm listening to but to the world.

If we're by ourselves we come to feel crazy and alone. We need to make alternate families of small groups of women who support each other, talk to each other regularly, can speak their truths and their experiences and find they're not alone in them, that other women have them, too ... It makes such a huge difference.

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.

There's something about being with a group of people who become like family that must be needed in society.

I love support groups, people talking about their feelings.

Friendship is a wildly underrated medication.

I love those connections that make this big old world feel like a little village.

One of the most important things you learn from the Internet is that there is no 'them' out there. It's just an awful lot of 'us.'

Be in community, go out to dinner together, do things together. We lose that, we lose a lot. It's important to come together.

We are able to relieve stress by leaning on each other. We often hang out at our home, order takeout food, and talk openly about our feelings. We are all there for each other.

Whatever the reason is, I am happiest when connecting with the human experience. It lets me know that I'm not alone in this world.

We're communal animals. If we're by ourselves, we can feel wrong and crazy and out of step with society. We really need those talking circles.

Happily, though we must each walk through life on our own, we don't have to do it alone.

The journey never happens alone.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

In a weird way, [hockey] is like church and therapy and exercise all rolled up into one.

There is a stage with people we love when we are no longer separate from them, but so close in sympathy that we live through them as directly as through ourselves. ... we push back our hair because theirs is in their eyes.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

There is something very healthy about finding support from others during difficult times. I needed it for my own healing.

The last page of [Lincoln in the Bardo] - without giving too much away - involves somebody entering somebody else. Not in a sexual way. But it says one of the simplest things you could ever say, which is that we must try and be inside each other. We must have some kind of feeling for each other and enter into each other's experience.

The best is when we all go at once, like an army of interrelated popcorn zombies who laugh the same laughs and gasp the same gasps and aren’t so germ-phobic with each other that we won’t share a ginormous Coke with one straw. Family is useful like that.

It seems to be this hot-bed for these ideas and bringing these groups together. You find that the one thing that everybody has in common, whether they're a teenager who has run away from his parents, or a divorcee who lost her husband, is that they all have in common this feeling of searching for a meaning in their lives.

Crying can bring relief, as long as you don't cry alone.