Quotes About Connection

The experience of separateness arouses anxiety; it is, indeed, the source of all anxiety. Being separate means being cut off, without any capacity to use my human powers. Hence to be separate means to be helpless, unable to grasp the world—things and people—actively; it means that the world can invade me without my ability to react.

If I truly love one person I love all persons, I love the world, I love life. If I can say to somebody else, I love you, I must be able to say, I love in you everybody, I love through you the world, I love in you also myself.

realists who have a special word for each type of automobile, but only the one word "love" to express the most varied kinds of affective experience.

l'amour est l'enfant de la liberté" as an old French song says; love is the child of freedom

Not that people think that love is not important. They are starved for it; they watch endless numbers of films about happy and unhappy love stories, they listen to hundreds of trashy songs about love—yet hardly anyone thinks that there is anything that needs to be learned about love. This

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living

I am surprised how often even the smallest kindness can carry a disproportionate weight

I'm far from perfect, but I'll be perfect for that imperfect person that's perfect for me.

What kind of a kiss was that anyway? It was the kind that sucked your soul out of your body. Hey, she wanted to call out to the man who'd just left. You forgot to give my soul back.

Every time you read a book your mind touches that of the person who wrote it – even if they died a long time ago.

When you are small, if you reach out, and nobody takes your hand, you stop reaching out, and reach inside, instead.

Maybe that's what love is, in the end: a shared illusion of safety.

Your "family of origin" (as her online therapist called them) could be toxic and strange, but they were yours: you could not escape them, for better or worse.

Although she hadn't realized it at the time, Charlotte now understood that proximity mattered.

Why is it that a connection that seems to have nothing to do with looks—because it feels so much deeper than that, like a connection of minds and souls—is actually entirely dependent on looks?

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

The food doesn't matter, really. What it evokes does.

I don't care where I come from or who you are. I can make you happy, and you make me happy. We could have a happily ever after.

hold one another close …" I eased through the throng of candlelit faces as the minister quoted scripture and talked about the

What good is a name when your in love? You only ever you pet names anyway. Hun.

You give my heart hiccups.

I could only see you. I only wanted to be with you. But marriage is never just two people, is it? It's so much more.

Feeling passionate about something is like getting a peak at your soul smiling back at you.

I maintain couchsurfing and crowdsurfing are basically the same thing — you're falling into the audience and you're trusting each other.