#uma

A tribe is a group of people connected to one another, connected to a leader, and connected to an idea. For millions of years, human beings have been part of one tribe or another. A group needs only two things to be a tribe: a shared interest and a way to communicate. ↗

— Seth Godin

#communication #connected #connection #group #groups

I wondered why humans were even given the gift of speech at all. We no longer needed it; we’ve forgotten to talk about anything. We only waste it. ↗

— Rasmenia Massoud

#humans #speech #talk #communication

That was when I first observed a phenomenon I now call the "New York Slide": you offer your words to try to communicate and connect with someone, but your words just hit a brick wall the person has erected to ward off human contact- the words slide down it and roll away. ↗

— Kelly Cutrone

#fashion #fashion-women #human-behavior #life-lessons #new-york

The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

#beings #between #communicator #compound #computer

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens." In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#hopelessness #humanity #peter-kreeft #age

If I am to be fallen into love, I will. And if as a result I will appear to be stupid, disillusioned, and of poor judgment, I will. And I would be damned if I cared what other people think. For I would rather be thought of as all of these things, than not love. If in loving, I become the naked woman on the horse, I will ride that horse with my head held high. This is my spirit. I am unbreakable. ↗

— C. JoyBell C.

#courage #fearless #fight-for-love #human #inspirational

When humans were young, they were pushed around in strollers. When they were old, they were pushed around in wheelchairs. In between, they were just pushed around. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#humans #life #age

Courage. Kindness. Friendship. Character. These are the qualities that define us as human beings, and propel us, on occasion, to greatness. ↗

— R.J. Palacio

#compassion #courage #friendship #honor #humanity

Naw, Jem. I think that there is just one kind of folks. Folks." Jen turned and punched his pillow. WHen he settle back his face was cloudy. He was going in to one of his declines, and I grew wary. His brows came together; his mouth became a thin line. He was silent for a while. That is what I thought, too," he said at last, "when I was your age. If there is just one kind of folks, why can't they get along with each other? If they're all alike, why do they go ut of their way to despise each other? Scout, I think I am beginning to understand something. I think I'm beginning to understand why Boo Radley stayed shut up in the house all this time...it's because he wants to stay inside ↗

— Harper Lee

#inspirational #age

There are certain mortal moments and minutes that matter. Certain hingepoints in the history of each human. Some seconds are so decisive they shrink the soul, while others are spent, so as to stretch the soul. ↗

— Neal A. Maxwell

#choices #courage #destiny #faith #god