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Quotes About Connection

Time together is so much more pleasant for the time apart.
~ Donita K. Paul
You are the best of us. We are the best of you. What becomes of us will, inevitably, become of you. That is why you should care. That is why I write. I end this chapter, then, with broken silence, broken vows, broken trust. Our secrets are yours now; I pray you use them well.
~ Donna Boyd
The yamas and niyamas are emphatic descriptions of what we are when we are connected to our source. Rather than a list of dos and don'ts, they tell us that our fundamental nature is compassionate, generous, honest, and peaceful.2
~ Donna Farhi
we" are not only breathing this life, "it" is also breathing us.
~ Donna Farhi
the yamas and niyamas are actually emphatic declarations of what we are when we are connected to our true nature.4 The yamas, or "outer observances," and the niyamas, or "inner observances," are often referred to as the inner and outer "restraints.
~ Donna Farhi
time acts as an invisible mortar for our experience; it is what stands between potentially discordant elements and, through finding their correct relationship, brings all into a unified whole.
~ Donna Farhi
yoga is not about self-improvement or making ourselves better. It is a process of deconstructing all the barriers we may have erected that prevent us from having an authentic connection with ourselves and with the world. This tenet is an extremely important one because the effort to change and improve ourselves is fraught with the risk of subtle self-aggression that only produces more unhappiness. We cannot strive toward something that we already are.
~ Donna Farhi
It's Quinn and I love you
~ Donna Fletcher
Heather wake up, it is I...Quinn. I have come back to you. Please wake up. I have missed you terribly and I love you so very much." Never
~ Donna Fletcher
She placed a hand over her heart. "I feel the love. It's there when I glance at you, when you smile at me, when you touch me." She patted her chest. "I can feel it each and every time, and sometimes it's just there for no particular reason at all.
~ Donna Fletcher
I've barely been able to think about anything else.' 'Other than...' He waited for me to finish. 'Kissing you, dummy,' I said. 'Really?' 'You shouldn't be that surprised,' I said. He grinned. 'I'm just glad to know we're on the same page.
~ Donna Freitas
The only thing that mattered was where I was and who I was with now, and when Will's arms tightened around me I knew I was right where I needed to be all along.
~ Donna Freitas
So what are you saying?" he asked. "That we'd be crazy if we don't try again. That you are good for me, Will Doniger. You've proven it again and again." He hesitated before he turned to me, words hovering on his lips. "Tell me," I said. "What are you thinking?" "That I love you, Rose. I have for a while." I stopped breathing. "Me too. I love you, too.
~ Donna Freitas
How quickly the brain, the body adapts to this new presence in life; how quickly the brain, the body develops a sense for it, for her--the ebb and flow of Addie's nearness and farness, the awareness of her location, her safety, her comfort and well-being.
~ Donna Freitas
Laughter and love make life worth living!
~ Donna J. Schmidt
In other words, Kat has a very high ACE Score of 5. And yet if you had met Kat at twenty or thirty, it's unlikely that you would have recognized the link between her childhood trauma and the many adult health—and life—hurdles that would later challenge her.
~ Donna Jackson Nakazawa
What do you wear for a man who kissed you like he was making babies?
~ Donna Kauffman
One thing was certain: She was probably past the point of making sure no one got hurt. Because she already knew that not seeing Cooper ever again, not feeling his body on hers, his mouth on hers, hearing him laugh, making him laugh, arguing, talking, finding notes tucked under starfish on her dashboard in the morning.
~ Donna Kauffman
You're really here." "I really am." It was the nervousness, the hint of vulnerability that had entered her eyes that finally snapped him out of his temporary daze. "Why?" he asked. "I mean, beyond the algebra homework of course." "It's pretty hard algebra. I might need a refresher course." "Kerry--" "I'm here for you," she said.
~ Donna Kauffman
there are discussions and then there are conversations. They aren't always the same thing, you know.
~ Donna Kauffman
All I know is that my family, my foundation, is you. And I want to build on that. I want to see what we can do together. I already know I don't do well without you.
~ Donna Kauffman
There's one more part," she said, finding the courage, knowing she needed to tell him the rest of it. "Of the all I want to have." "Which is?" She lifted her head then, propped her chin on his chest, and looked into his beautiful blue eyes. "You.
~ Donna Kauffman
and one of only a few on the entire station, she'd bonded with
~ Donna Kauffman
I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.
~ Donna Leon