Quotes About Connection

Sometimes it is the person closest to us who must travel the furthest distance to be our friend.

What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame but something wild to run with.

There are couples a matchmaker would match every time — and couples who, for no rhyme or reason, rhyme.

It is not that love is blind. It is that love sees with a painter's eye, finding the essence that renders all else background.

I enjoy many silent moments with my cat, a conversation always resumed exactly where left off.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

Sometimes fate brings two people together by causing one to misinterpret a smile.

In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.

A mom reads you like a book, and wherever she goes, people read you like a glowing book review.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

What is the fire in our belly but the eternal flame of a thousand ancestors.

Love is a condition where the world seems to be standing still, and it's you who are spinning on your axis.

In a soulmate we find not company but a completed solitude.

You never get people's fuller attention than when you're listening to them.

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden.

The strongest marriage is between two who seek the same God, the strongest friendship between two who flee the same devil.

For lack of an occasional expression of love, a relationship strong at the seams can wear thin in the middle.

What greater blessing to give thanks for at a family gathering than the family and the gathering.

Stored away in some brain cell is the image of a long-departed aunt you haven't thought of in 30 years. Stored away in another cell is the image of a pink pony stitched on your first set of baby pajamas. All it takes to get that aunt mounted on the back of that pony is to eat a hunk of meatloaf immediately before going to bed.

Lovers needn't always agree, anymore than poetry need always rhyme.

A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.

A dog is much like a married man, obeying his master's voice for the sake of his master's touch.

In the end you don't so much find yourself as you find someone who knows who you are.

If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners.