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Quotes About Connection

Prayer is our voice; intuition is God's answer.
~ Donald L. Hicks
If you Love all Life you observe, you will observe all Life will Love.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Nature will teach us many lessons if we take the time to visit her classroom.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Love is the language that transcends all others.
~ Donald L. Hicks
During Life, we cultivate relationships by spending days with others. During eternity, we cultivate relationships by spending lifetimes with others.
~ Donald L. Hicks
If you nurture Life, Life will nurture you.
~ Donald L. Hicks
No church or synagogue pew can produce a higher awareness of God than sitting at the base of a tree and observing His creation.
~ Donald L. Hicks
Life is more than just a bump in the road. All life is sacred.
~ Donald L. Hicks
There is no reason any Christians should be dry and weary, and not feel Jesus within himself. God never intended it to this way.
~ Donald Lee
So I made up my mind to start praising Him more in the Spirit. At first, I did not immediately feel the presence of God come on me. But as time went on, over the course of the next weeks and months, I began to feel the presence of the Lord growing on me.
~ Donald Lee
In this dispensation, the Holy Ghost is the person of the Godhead through whom we can experience the presence of God the most.
~ Donald Lee
We are Love just as God is Love. We seek oneness with God that can only be found when we become Love.
~ Donald Lee
What all that means is that readers fundamentally want to feel something, not about your story, but about themselves. They want to play. They want to anticipate, guess, think, and judge. They want to finish a story and feel competent. They want to feel like they've been through something. They want to connect with your characters and live their fictional experience, or believe that they have. Creating
~ Donald Maass
When readers feel strongly, their hearts are open. Your stories can not only reach them for a moment, but they can change them forever.
~ Donald Maass
A work of fiction grips our imaginations because we care, both about the characters in the tale and about ourselves. To put it another way, we are concerned about the outcome of the story because what is happening to the characters could happen to us.
~ Donald Maass
When you stop expecting people to be perfect, you can like them for who they are.
~ Donald Miller
I once listened to an Indian on television say that God was in the wind and the water, and I wondered at how beautiful that was because it meant you could swim in Him or have Him brush your face in a breeze.
~ Donald Miller
sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself...
~ Donald Miller
When an axon of cell A is near enough to excite cell B and repeatedly or persistently takes part in firing it, some growth process or metabolic change takes place in one or both cells such that A's efficiency, as one of the cells firing B, is increased
~ Donald Olding Hebb
the distance fills and nearness is a void
~ Donald Revell
Still, I love a crowd of us.
~ Donald Revell
The world has a body and I have none
~ Donald Revell
Humanness is a window thrown against a wall.
~ Donald Revell
Japan never considers time together as time wasted. Rather, it is time invested.
~ Donald Richie