Rachel Cohn Quotes

We live in a fractured world. I've always seen it as my role as an artist to attempt to make wholeness.

My life is a mosaic, and there's no room in between pieces at all.

United we stand, divided we fall. Let us not split into factions which must destroy that union upon which our existence hangs.

we all need each other, none of us is an island, an autonomous and independent "I," separated from the other, and we can only build the future by standing together, including everyone. We don’t think about it often, but everything is connected, and we need to restore our connections to a healthy state. Even the harsh judgment I hold in my heart against my brother or my sister, the open wound that was never cured, the offense that was never forgiven, the rancor that is only going to hurt me, are all instances of a fight that I carry within me, a flare deep in my heart that needs to be extinguished before it goes up in flames, leaving only ashes behind.

Society is the body; individuals are its members, its limbs. Just as the various limbs help and co-operate with one another and thus are happy, so each must unite with others in being helpful to all in thought, speech and action... One may see to the good of one's own group, i.e., the group that is immediate to him, and then proceed to others.

In sports, a team is surrounded with people with different backgrounds, with different races, and with different religions. In order to win, everybody comes together. I feels like that's what the U.S.A. represents. Everyone just has to come together in order to win.

The national team is the best example that integration can work.

I try not to think of my life in terms of separation.

Fusion is the future. The mixing of ideas. The two lunch tables working together. Humanity...we're 1 people.

Out of association grows adhesion, and out of adhesion amalgamation.

Small endeavours obtain strength by unity of action: the most powerful are broken down by discord.

All we are is eyes looking for the unbroken or the edges where the broken bits might fit each other.

Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory.

Integration is a basic law of life; when we resist it, disintegration is the natural result, both inside and outside of us. Thus we come to the concept of harmony through integration.

Only by restoring the broken connections can we be healed. Connection is health.

We cannot move forward or will not move forward if we are divided.

People may be said to resemble the pieces of a puzzle, each unique, yet each essential to bring out a complete picture.

Families are like puzzles. They fit together in a certain way, and if one piece is missing, it throws everything off.

The church isn't simply a collection of isolated individuals ... we need to learn again the lesson that a hand is no less a hand for being part of a larger whole, an entire body. The foot is not diminished in its freedom to be a foot by being part of a body which also contains eyes and ears. In fact, hands and feet are most free to be themselves when they coordinate properly with eyes, ears, and everything else. Cutting them off in an effort to make them truly free, truly themselves, would be truly disastrous.

Two halves don't make a whole. Two wholes make a whole.

There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another.

The fundamental thing is to drop the split, to become one. Be one, and then all else is possible; even the impossible is possible.

Divisiveness is not good for the people.

There has to be a middle. Without it, nothing can ever truly be whole. Because it is not just the space between, but also what holds everything together.

By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed.