Quotes About Connection

So be patient when exploring how others think and feel. Encourage them to share their path and then wait for their emotions to catch up with the safety that you've created.

There's nothing in heaven or earth that could make me let go of her, not so long as she wants me to hold on.

You're back." "Girl"—he reached up and tucked her hair behind her ear—"you're that good a kisser.

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only as long as they remember us.

There were moments where I could make her laugh so unselfconsciously that she felt like a child again, expanding into her past as she was moving into her future.

Not that he truly wished them dead--that wasn't quite it--but more and more often, when the man considered his lifelong friends, his colleagues, even his wife and sons, he felt that their image of him had become so mildewed by habit or complicated by misunderstanding that he took comfort in the idea of their mortality: the thought that soon, very soon, they would die and he would no longer have to be the person they had concluded he was.

If developing ties to this world and exercising love and compassion are not the very point of us -- I cannot presume to know -- then we are at least better occupied in this way, I feel, than with the riddles of other worlds, which only prove impossible for us to solve and unhealthy even to ponder.

Laughter heals all wounds, and that's one thing that everybody shares. No matter what you're going through, it makes you forget about your problems. I think the world should keep laughing.

Just because they don't hear the song (of the world) doesn't mean it's silent.

We never grow tired of working together or simply talking. We have a rare rapport that others often recognize and envy. For myself, I have found this relationship to be one of the main sources of my own life force. I have called it a transcendental relationship, with a love and acceptance that go beyond the realm of this lifetime.

We are attracted to another person at a soul level not because that person is our unique complement, but because by being with that individual we are somehow provided with an impetus to become whole ourselves.

We touch people with our minds, with our words, and with our bodies. I have always sensed that we are at all times healers or destroyers. There is no middle ground. (A.R.E.

Even if we never talk again after tonight, please know that I'm forever changed because of who you are, and what you've meant to me.

She smiled and

He didn't know how to deal with people who were falling apart, how to comfort them. He wasn't sure if he'd just forgotten how to be with people at all.

called Mathieu while he was in Paris, but had somehow failed to get around to it. "Okay. Well, thanks

Maybe raising children was just giving them the things you loved most in the world and hoping that they loved them too.

The kids were happy. They had added another to their numbers. They didn't want to set the world on fire. They just wanted to be less alone in it.

This was what I finally realized, that even as we sank deeper and deeper into our lives, we were always separate. And I wondered what it would feel like, to fall but to hold on to someone else so you weren't alone.

Maybe that's what children were, a desperate need that opened you up even if you didn't want it.

she is the noor of my eyes and the sultan of my heart.

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and right doing, there is a field. I'll meet you there.

Boys, Laila came to see, treated friendship the way they treated the sun: its existence undisputed; its radiance best enjoyed, not beheld directly.

Blood is a powerful thing