Edwin Markham Quotes

We are each other's destiny.

Every little action creates an effect: We are all interconnected.

Everything you touch touches you.

We don't live alone. We are members of one body. We are responsible for each other. And I tell you that the time will soon come when if men will not learn that lesson, then they will be taught it in fire and blood and anguish. Good night.

* What we do to others, we do to ourselves.

Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.

We are increasingly open to understanding how we are all connected and that if we sink the ship that we are all on, we all drown. However, we have simultaneously become so focused on our own life experiences that we think we are alone.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

No one is alone, and each change here brings about another change there.

We are so bound together that no man can labor for himself alone. Each blow he strikes in his own behalf helps to mold the universe.

You can't walk alone. Many have given the illusion, but none have really walked alone. Man is not made that way. Each man is bedded in his people, their history, their culture, and their values.

We have had in our nation a well-celebrated Declaration of Independence. But our success as a country will depend upon a new 'Declaration of Inter-dependence.' A belief in how much we need each other, how much we share one common destiny.

We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.

We are all tied together in a single garment of destiny . . . I can never be what I ought to be until you are allowed to be what you ought to be.

The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.

In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality.

When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, "Give me this day my daily bread." It was always, "Give us this day our daily bread." That stuck. We're all in this together.

You don't live in a world all alone. Your brothers are here too.

I changed the world; the world changed me. Everything you do comes back to you. When you affect a situation, you are also affected.

The benefit of one is the benefit of all, and the neglect of one is the neglect of all.

Love each other or perish.

Yes, I do believe that there is a cause and effect and a ripple effect upon everything everybody does, and they have positive consequences and negative consequences. If you start to focus on the kind of minutia of that, it's really quite extraordinary.

We may have all come on different ships, but we're in the same boat now.

No one will do for you what you need to do for yourself. We cannot afford to be separate. We have to see that all of us are in the same boat.

The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.