“If we walk down the sidewalk of any street in America a significant number of the people we pass by, if we dug into what they're going through in their lives, they're carrying burdens that they don't talk about but they're extremely heavy and painful. And so, one of the secrets of the human condition is that suffering binds people together. And when you go through something agonizing, others who know what you're feeling because they've been through it will so often reach out to you and connect with you, and give you strength and lift you up.”
![“When we [people] are operating from the belief that we're not connected, it feels so dangerous and scary and vulnerable and awful.” quote by Alanis Morissette](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/df7/alanis-morissette-1074_awful_when-we-people-are-operating-from-the-be_2578009.jpg)
