Jacqueline Novogratz Quotes

Even things which seem separate and finished are infinitely connected and will infinitely connect. This connection happens as soon as you let it, as soon as you engage - as soon as you even attempt to engage.

There is a destiny which makes us brothers; none goes his way alone. All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own.

Everything happens through relationships.

No one person is an island.

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.

To say, my fate is not tied to your fate, is like saying your end of the boat is sinking.

Our individual fates are linked our futures intertwined

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.

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.

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

No man is an island. If you want to blame anybody for poisoning the world with that socialistic idea, blame John Donne.

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

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

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

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

Nothing can be by itself alone, no one can be by himself or herself alone, everyone has to inter-be with every one else. That is why, when you look outside, around you, you can see yourself.

We are each of us angels with only one wing, and we can only fly by embracing one another.

We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

We have to move from our devotion to independence, through an understanding of interdependence

There's the bond of a connection and the bond of bondage... When you are connected to somebody, everything each one does affects the other, and it's a kind of bondage. You're not as free as you would be if that person wasn't in your life.

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

I don't think about it. I have always been linked up with everybody.

God designed humans to live in community.

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