Quotes About Connection

A pragmatic examination of the way of life that results from obedience to the Torah shows that in the long run, besides offering considerable freedom in almost every area of endeavor, such obedience lends to every act the quality of ritual and makes it seem a direct link between man and his Maker.

Let's talk sense to the American people.

On this shrunken globe, men can no longer live as strangers.

I respected my father, but I loved my mother

Everything I am, I am through you alone.

Our system of education entirely loses sight of the fact that, in the long run, a healthy mind can exist only in a healthy body... In nearly every case, physical weakness is the forerunner of personal cowardice.

Each only hears the sound to which his innermost is attuned. Speech of September 3, 1933 in Nuremberg

Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

The perfect host requires the perfect parasite.

All the world needs is one clip to string everyone together #bestrong

Evolutionary biology is now uttering and seeking those forces that link us with all those that have being. If we can discover the meaning in the trilling of a frog, perhaps we may understand why it is for us not merely noise but a song of poetry and emotion.

I don't know really. I've always been interested in the small picture instead of the big one, and I've always been interested in relationship pictures.

Coco, however, courted consequence; she was still a girl, and she still assumed a connection between what she was doing and what she wanted and what might result.

You will find, that when you have someone to love, that the face is less important than the brain, and the body is less important than the heart.

I like it when my mother smiles. And I especially like it when I make her smile.

But what Mom never told me is that along the way, you find sisters, and they find you. Girls are cool that way.

We hang out, we help one another, we tell one another our worst fears and biggest secrets, and then just like real sisters, we listen and don't judge.

A good mother is irreplaceable.

Whever I came into the room, she'd light up, so happy to see me. No one ever in the course of my entire life was ever as happy to see me as she was. Looking back, now, I realize that you only ever need one person who lights up that way when you enter a room. One person is all it takes to give a kid confidence.

No one worries about you like your mother, and when she is gone, the world seems unsafe, things that happen unwieldy. You cannot turn to her anymore, and it changes your life forever. There is no one on earth who knew you from the day you were born; who knew why you cried, or when you'd had enough food; who knew exactly what to say when you were hurting; and who encouraged you to grow a good heart. When that layer goes, whatever is left of your childhood goes with her.

People have often told me that one of their strongest childhood memories is the scent of their grandmother's house. I never knew my grandmothers, but I could always count of the Bookmobile.

Loneliness is not about how many people you have around. It's about whether or not you feel connected. Whether or not you're able to be yourself.

The lonely feeling comes from not feeling known.

You have no idea how much you can learn about yourself by plunging into someone else's life" Margot said. I smiled at her, not fully understanding what she was saying but feeling a small ping of comprehension, an olive pit smacking the wall of my consciousness. "You can read your way into a whole new narrative for yourself" Margot promised.