Quotes About Connection

I know nothing I'm doing is important,' he said. 'Sure, I'm just a waste product of history. Maybe nothing I'm doing is even real, after all. But I was born right here, in this old house, and I look out the window and know what I'm seeing, and I know some people I like to be with, and I like what I do all day long, and maybe that's all that realness is, anyway

The Friend of Your Youth is the only friend you will ever have, for he does not really see you. He sees in his mind a face which does not exist anymore, speaks a name…which belongs to that non-existent face but which by some inane and doddering confusion of the universe is for the moment attached to a not too happily met and boring stranger.

I had not understood then what I think I have now come to understand: that we can keep the past only by having the future, for they are forever tied together. Therefore

I studied her face, and for the moment just did that and let all the questions just slide away, like something dropped into the mist and water below us to slide away in the oily silence of the current. — Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (Harcourt, Brace, & Co., 1946)

I couldn't any more have touched her then than if she had been my little sister.

Everything seems an echo of something else.

If it appears to be the main route from a town to a city, that's bad. The best ones always connect nowhere with nowhere and have an alternate that gets you there quicker.

Faith is not merely a way of knowing; it is also a way of participating.

The love that you give another is what knits the wounds of the world.

nuestras frecuencias individuales, ya sean de amor o de miedo, fluyen constantemente hacia el exterior, afectando por igual a los seres espirituales como a otras personas que pueden estar en cualquier parte, incluso lejos de nosotros.

la vida es un viaje que va desde la cabeza hasta el corazón.

Computing is not about computers any more. It is about living.

Ya no me inquieté más por pasar la montaña, pues sabía que lo haría, y del otro lado mi padre y yo cazaríamos juntos el ave punzón en las Tierras Bajas Abrasadas, saliendo juntos, protegiéndonos mutuamente del peligro, colaborando en el rastreo y en el ataque final, conociendo una intimidad que nunca había existido entre nosotros durante mi niñez.

I don't care what he looks like, if he smiles and shares his food then he's human by me.

We live in other people. And when one of our friends dies, then that part of us that has lived in him dies, too.

For Harlan, to remind him of open windows, the currents of the Delaware River, quarters with two heads, and other pitfalls.

The further I get from the things that I care about, the less I care about how much further away I get.

There is no secret so close as that between a rider and her horse.

A true friend is the gift of God, and He only who made hearts can unite them.

Architecture is a social art that choreographs human interacti(-_-)n.

The ability to sell—to communicate to another human being, be it a customer, employee, boss, spouse, or child—is the base skill of personal success.

Whenever I feel that people aren't smiling at me, I simply begin smiling and saying hello. Like magic, the next thing I know I'm surrounded by smiling people. It is true that your world is only a mirror of you. So

One way to meet like-minded people is to attend classes or seminars, join clubs, or simply study and learn a new vocabulary. Soon you will meet new friends.

Whenever you feel short or in need of something, give what you want first and it will come back in buckets. That is true for money, a smile, love, or friendship.