Quotes About Connection

Love offers us the most perfect soil for growth." Leo Buscaglia

To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides." David Viscott

I ask you to consider that the goal of your life is not just to find love; it is to be love. Love is the real work of your life.

To get to love you have to start with love.

You don't want to walk and talk about Jesus, You just want to see his face. —Keith Richards / Mick Jagger (1972)

While friendship itself has an air of eternity about it, seeming to transcend all natural limits, there is hardly any emotion so utterly at the mercy of time. We form friendships, and grow out of them. It might almost be said that we cannot retain the faculty of friendship unless we are continually making new friends.

When a man falls in love suddenly his whole centre changes. Up to that point he has probably referred everything to himself--considered things from his own point. When he falls in love the whole thing is shifted; he becomes a part of the circumference--perhaps even the whole circumference; someone else becomes the centre.

Here then is an undeniable fact. The man who does not keep the Second Commandment cannot even implicitly be keeping the First: the man who rejects Christ in man cannot accept Christ in God. "He that loveth not his brother whom he seeth, how can he love God, whom he seeth not?" ( 1 John 4:20 ).

Every code must be reversed; every barrier thrown down; party must unite with party, country with country, and continent with continent.

there should be established the peace of man with God, and after that the unity of man with man will follow.

There's a better way. There has to be education, and the education has to come from the poets and musicians, because it has to touch the heart rather than the intellect, it has to get in there deeply.

Outside major darkness where the circle is complete there's no fear that lovers born will ever fail to meet

One doesn't have to follow every proposition, make every connection-the intuitive or affective reading may be more practical anyway. What if one accepted the invitation-come as you are-and read with a different attitude, which might be more like the way one attends to poetry? Then difficulty would not prevent the flashes of understanding that we anticipate in the poets we love, difficult though they may be.

The first diagnostic question follows from the late writer Maya Angelou's assertion that "at the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.

when I am there to visit and get to know the people and how they work, I can't learn much sitting in a private office.

it's sometimes wise to add rather than remove communication barriers—and physical distance is one of the most protective barriers.

Ochsner 10/5 Way." Employees are expected to smile at and make eye contact with any patient or employee who is within ten feet of them and to say hello to anyone who is within five feet.

When we abide in Christ like a branch in a vine, we'll produce a vintage life.

Family life demands emotional doseness. For many silent sons emotional closeness is stressful, even if they want it more than anything else.

Pray without ceasing. – 1 Thessalonians 5:17

Draw near to God and He will draw near to you.

not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together. – Hebrews 10:25

Dr. Gregory Boyd wrote, "I've become absolutely convinced that remaining aware of God's presence is the single most important task in the life of every follower of Jesus."5

El único tipo de infierno que puedo concebir —dijo Espíritu— es pasar por la eternidad sin que se formen nuevas conexiones; sin ver las cosas de forma nueva; sin divertirse por el absurdo de la economía, de la religión, de la ciencia, del arte. Todo es muy, muy divertido, si lo piensas bien.