Social Connectedness Quotes

#1. There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.

Andrew Weil

#2. My heart broke open and history fell in.

Salman Rushdie

#3. You become what you continually think about.

Earl Nightingale

#4. In whatever I may be thought to have been unnatural, unwise and indelicate, it is now my most fervent desire it may have a suitable impression on you - and on me, a penitent for every wrong thought and step.

Deborah Sampson

#5. We must therefore rediscover, after the natural world, the social world, not as an object or sum of objects, but as a permanent field or dimension of existence.

Maurice Merleau Ponty

#6. Community connectedness is not just about warm fuzzy tales of civic triumph. In measurable and well-documented ways, social capital makes an enormous difference in our lives ... Social capital makes us smarter, healthier, safer, richer, and better able to govern a just and stable democracy.

Robert D. Putnam

#7. Social media is the illusion of connectedness without the interconnectedness that makes us thrive.

Lisa Cypers Kamen

#8. Burnett fidgeted. She had never seen Burnett like this. He looked like a kid who needed to go to the bathroom.

C.C. Hunter

#9. If individuals start to walk on the path of spirit and feel a sense of the sacred connectedness, then social, economic and political problems will also begin to get resolved.

Satish Kumar

#10. Anyone living in Los Angeles who has opposable thumbs is required to write a screenplay.

James Scott Bell

#11. He could see the flames in my hair, he knew my lips would scorch him.

Janet Fitch

#12. Today's leading real-world retailer, Wal-Mart, uses software to power its logistics and distribution capabilities, which it has used to crush its competition.

Marc Andreessen

#13. If you take a single word ... and make it your own on a day-to-day basis, I hope it's choose. Being able to choose to act differently, even while feeling the old way, may be the most liberating growth you can accomplish.

Sue Thoele

#14. The appreciation of wine was based solely on the way it tasted. The invention of drinking glasses meant that the color, transparency, and clarity of wine became important, too. We are used to seeing what we drink, but this was new to the Romans, and they loved it.

Mark Miodownik