Quotes About Connection

We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.

If you only get hypoglycemia around one person, the chances are actually much greater that you might be falling in love than that you have suddenly contracted a nasty sugar condition.

Evidence of trust begets trust, and love is reciprocated by love.

To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage

Books delight to the very marrow of one's bones. They speak to us, consult with us, and join with us in a living and intense intimacy.

Vulnerability is the only authentic state. Being vulnerable means being open, for wounding, but also for pleasure.

But I'd rather help than watch. I'd rather have a heart than a mind. I'd rather expose too much than too little. I'd rather say hello to strangers than be afraid of them. I would rather know all this about myself than have more money than I need. I'd rather have something to love than a way to impress you.

Children's emotional well-being and security are more affected by the relationship between the parents than by the direct relationship between the parent and child.

Podría dar la fórmula química de la lágrima. Pero sería una tontería. Todos sabemos que la lágrima no es nada más que unas letras mayúsculas y unos números chiquititos, un líquido que sirve para lavar el globo ocular. La lágrima lava también otras cosas. A veces es una pregunta. A veces es una respuesta. Pero siempre es un mensaje. Y nace lejos de los ojos.

The greatest love is a mother's; then a dog's; then a sweetheart's.

A House Is Not A Home.

We all belong here equally...Just by being born onto the earth we are accepted and the earth supports us. We don't have to be especially good. We don't have to accomplish anything. We don't even have to be healthy.

You can't replace one dog with another any more than you can replace one person with another, but that's not to say you shouldn't get more dogs and people in your life.

The only really interesting thing about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart, and Miss Honeycut has a teeny tiny pea-sized one and it takes you nowhere you want to go.

Maybe we live in a universe where all you have control over is your own kindness.

I left parts of myself some places and found others unexpectedly. New people appeared on the scene and others disappeared before I had a chance to say goodbye. All kinds of ordinary people gave their whole hearts to things you wouldn't think you could give your heart to.

The only really interesting things about someone that makes you want to explore them further is their heart.

Leonard is saying, 'Whenever I hear that a guy writes poetry I feel close to him. You know, I understand the folly.

And what could my father possibly want with another child, when he hardly bothered to talk to the one he already had?

Dogen maintains that self and other are ultimately interdependent; the self does not exist prior to, or outside of, the other; we only have the possibility of experiencing self or other through relationship.

From this point onwards history becomes an organic whole: the affairs of Italy and of Africa are connected with those of Asia and of Greece, and all events bear a relationship and contribute to a single end.

That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We wait for the instant in which Israel will say yes to Christ, but we know that it has a special mission in history now ... which is significant for the world.

The family is the first essential cell of human society.

Mankind is a great, an immense family. This is proved by what we feel in our hearts at Christmas.