Quotes About Connection

Life is a series of family photos in which eventually you stop showing up.

If God had intended us to be alone, there would be more pleasure in massaging our own shoulders.

[H]e doesn't reckon his dog has human feelings, but he sure lets you know when you hurt his instincts.

It's sad when two people who could never part without a kiss come to the point where they never part and so never kiss.

I guess I have never really doubted that we are all born to our guardian angel.

We are known to our friends by a look in our eyes that we never see in a mirror.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

You will find that if you really try to be a father, your child will meet you halfway.

I don't hate anyone. The only people I know well enough to hate, I love.

If minutes were kept of a family gathering, they would show that "Members not Present" and "Subjects Discussed" were one and the same.

Once you become the mommy or daddy in your child's world, it is the only world in which you exist, no matter how much you fancy there is a separate world of your own.

Sometimes I imagine a get-together where I introduce my family to my blogger friends and my blogger friends introduce my family to me.

Basically we are all looking for someone who knows who we are and will break it to us gently.

In the end there doesn't have to be anyone who understands you. There just has to be someone who wants to.

Sometimes two people need to step apart and make a space between that each might see the other anew, in a glance across a room or silhouetted against the moon.

There's nothing like self-improvement to get your friends to like you for who you were.

Being loved by all is little fun Unless you're also loved by one.

When I am gone, my love, do not look for me in the places we used to go to together. Look for me in the places we always planned to go to together.

Today, befriend a stranger, or if you feel up to more of a challenge, befriend a loved one.

Love is given to us as a time, but to keep it always, we must make it a place.

Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

I'd rather people feel a film before understanding it.

Since to be loved endures, To love is wise.

I hold the very simpleminded view that everything is related to everything else-and that every one is related to everyone else, and that every species is related to every other. The only way out of this tissue of interrelations, it seems to me, is to stop paying attention, and to substitute something else-hallucination, greed, pride, or hatred, for example-for sensuous connection to the facts. I think it is not the world's task to entertain us, but ours to take an interest in the world.