Unity Quotes

Neither is necessarily a better or more valuable oarsman than the other; both the long arms and the strong back are assets to the boat. But if they are to row well together, each of these oarsmen must adjust to the needs and capabilities of the other. Each must be prepared to compromise something in the way of optimizing his stroke for the overall benefit of the boat...Only in this way can the capabilities that come with diversity...be turned to advantage rather than disadvantage.p179

~ Daniel James Brown

And he came to understand how those almost mystical bonds of trust and affection, if nurtured correctly, might lift a crew above the ordinary sphere, transport it to a place where nine boys somehow became one thing - a thing that could not quite be defined, a thing that was so in tune with the water and the earth and the sky above that, as they rowed, effort was replaced by ecstasy. It was a rare thing, a sacred thing, a thing devoutly to be hoped for.p 48

~ Daniel James Brown

Even as rowers must subsume their often fierce sense of independence and self-reliance, at the same time they must hold true to their individuality, their unique capabilities as oarsmen or oarswomen or, for that matter, as human beings. p 179

~ Daniel James Brown

We are the beauty of the world enveloped within the confines of a human structure: created out of love to love until the end of time.

~ J.d. Leisher

He extended his hand, and one by one, everyone put their hands on top of his as a show of unity.

~ Mark Shaw

...where there is One, that One is me; where there are many, all are me; they see my face everywhere.The Bhagavad Gita

~ The Bhagavad Gita

The wise teacher appears, not for the structure of the student; but for the freedom of the people.

~ Nikki Rowe

Brand-new truths are probably not Truths.

~ John Piper

If we are to be truly free, that freedom will come through cooperation and tolerance with one another.

~ A.j. Darkholme

The 1970s, fewer than 25% of US residents lived in counties in which the presidential candidate won by landslide. 30 years later, that percentage has nearly doubled.

~ Alexandra Robbins

When we begin to realize, that any of our personal success, is all of our successes, then we are truly ready as a species, for the next level. For if I gain, and you do not, then I have gained nothing, for gain is nothing if not shared.For to isolate one's self, no matter how seemingly enriched, is to lose the greatest treasure of all, the ability to share and grow, from our universal connection.

~ Tom Althouse

Respect for Human rights preserves us as A nation.

~ Auliq Ice

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole.

~ Eugène Delacroix

He didn't realize that simply by mingling among various lunch tables, he was befriending people in different crowds, weaving together the fringes of the cafeteria.

~ Alexandra Robbins

The names they gave were false ones, though the vows they made were true.

~ Leigh Bardugo

The world has always teemed with a wide variety of spiritual thought and many differing journeys of the heart. But too often the world has used these differences as a weapon. How much agony has been wrought by what should be a thing of beauty - religious passion?

~ Steve Goodier

Anne is God. I am God. The happy grass are God, Jill groks in beauty always. Jill is God. All shaping and making and creating together.

~ Robert A. Heinlein

Unity is not agreeing with each other about God. Rather it is agreeing with God about each other.

~ Anonymous

The unity in diversity lies only in your heart.

~ Cass Van Krah

In life we are separated by boundaries political, cultural, ethical, linguistical and psychical. But in death we are all united, for all afterlife is similarly unknown

~ Prabhukrishna M

Many secular observers and spiritual practitioners alike mistake mystical chanting as a kind of anthropological curiosity or interesting musical diversion from secular mainstream entertainment, sometimes labeling it 'world' or 'folk' music. But uttering or chanting spells, mantras or prayers shouldn't be regarded as a romantic excursion to a distant past, or faraway place, or as an escape from our everyday stresses, for relaxation or entertainment. These sounds are meant to be experienced as the timeless unity of energy currents. The chanting of ancient esoteric sounds enables us to realize we are never separate from the one continuously existing omnipresent vibration of the cosmos.

~ Zeena Schreck

I cannot tell you how much I love you. But that which of all things I have most at heart, with regard to you, is the real progress of your soul in the divine life. Heaven seems to be awakened in you. It is a tender plant. It requires stillness, meekness, and the unity of the heart, totally given up to the unknown workings of the Spirit of God, which will do all its work in the calm soul, that has no hunger or desire but to escape out of the mire of its earthly life into its lost union and life in God. I mention this, out of a fear of your giving in to an eagerness about many things, which, though seemingly innocent, yet divide and weaken the workings of the divine life within you.

~ William Law

Divided you Vanish, United you grow.

~ Abed Rahmani

It is one of my decided opinions that married people ought to have no one, be the tie ever so close and dear, living permanently with them, to break the sacred duality — no, let me say the unity of their home.

~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science, he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within which the partial results of science may become more intelligible.

~ William Barrett

The whole point is to join together in this cause and not be against each other. Only then we will find justice.

~ Cecibel Contreras

When we separate ourselves from the rest of the world, the world becomes a lonely and difficult place to live in. When we see ourselves as completely separate, we cannot call upon the power and strength that comes from unity, from being part of a greater whole. In today's world, we buy into the lie that if we do see ourselves as--or make ourselves into--a part of the greater whole, then we'll lose our identity and become nothing more than another face in the crowd, a lemming who does nothing but follow others and never creates his or her own life. Nothing, though, could be further from the truth.

~ Tom Walsh

The geek of the Earth are a tribe and they are mighty.

~ Ian Mcdonald

Where there is unity, there is always victory

~ Publilius Syrus

We hear the saints saying: Our brother the world. We hear the revolutionaries: Dare we win?

~ Muriel Rukeyser

The unity of all science consists alone in its method, not in its material.

~ Karl Pearson

The masses of flies over the dirt do not state their unity, it is the dirt that brings them together.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

Today, despite different backgrounds, those of us who are willing to respect the traditions and history of this country can join together under one national banner as Australians. This is the kind of unity that the conservative will embrace, not the superficial and divisive 'diversity' talk of the radical, who prefers to constantly re-create the nation according to some momentary fashionable utopian image and denounces all patriotic sentiment as jingoist and bigoted.

~ Cory Bernardi

I am more than a little jealous that the wonder I am party to has been sprinkled over Salinger's gray head.

~ W.p. Kinsella

Jefferson was the rare leader who stood out from the crowd without intimidating it.

~ Jon Meacham

Unity, I thought, implies the possibility of disunity. Beginnings imply and require endings.

~ Ann Leckie

We are all united by both pain and love. Both a smile and a wound. We are all united by these very basic yet very influential things, because we all recognize them, we all know what they feel like to have or to give. Everything else, all the other things that do not unite us— those things are all illusions.

~ C. Joybell C.

I have never known birds of different species to flock together. The very concept is unimaginable. Why, if that happened, we wouldn't stand a chance! How could we possibly hope to fight them?

~ Alfred Hitchcock

He (Abraham Lincoln) is one of the few men in history, our own history and all history, whose religion was great enough to bridge the gulfs between the sects, to encompass us all.

~ Dean Sperry

Expansion (both far and wide) is the order of the day

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey