Quotes About Connection

Before machines the only form of entertainment people really had was relationships.

The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.

No matter how impressive the structure, or how lengthy the preparation, or how unique the design, Christian communication—whether it's a sermon, a talk, a Bible study, or a devotional—that doesn't help people connect to God is a waste of time, effort, and opportunity. It's a bridge to nowhere, and a bridge to nowhere is no bridge at all.

The chase causes you to be overcommitted and under-connected. Something has to change, or your marriage will suffer the consequences.

Falling in love creates beauty in every facet of life. A hovering bee, a gentle flowing creek, pale blue sky, the crinkle at the corner of an old woman's eye, bare feet on velvet moss, a songbird in a bush, even the howl of a far away wolf become so beautiful to those finding a new love. It was like that for Sassy and Hanlon, everything seemed sharper and clearer. It was like a new view of the world that they had never known existed had opened up to them. Doug Hiser Montana Mist

So, you are now talking to birds?" Hanlon glanced back from looking up at the tree the crow sat in and said, "Not all birds, just crows, oh, and hawks and eagles, sometimes ospreys, but never vultures." She laughed at his attempt at humor, "Why don't you talk to vultures?" "Well, Sassy, because vultures aren't very good conversationalists. Doug Hiser -Montana Mist coming soon 2010

You don't understand,' I said. 'I need to be with her. With every fibre of my being I ache for her. I'm in love.' 'I do understand,' said Zoran. 'It was same for me with Mrs Zoran when I first meet her. But the feeling goes away after few hours.

The whole concept of 'wild' was decidedly European, one not shared by the original inhabitants of this continent. What we called 'wilderness' was to the Indian a homeland, 'abiding loveliness' in Salish or Piegan. The land was not something to be feared or conquered, and 'wildlife' were neither wild nor alien; they were relatives.

Insulate yourself with friends and seek out wild places.

When soul-sexy women are grounded in their God-given identities, they elicit the best from others with whom they are in relationship.

God looks at the heart of your erotic desire to understand how you are using your sexuality. When you mentally lust after someone with whom God wants to give you a pure connecting or coupling relationship, you contaminate and adulterate something potentially beautiful in your life. As

First, only God, through our relationship with Christ, can ever completely satisfy our intimacy needs for being unconditionally known and accepted. The intimate lovemaking between a man and a woman (as good and complete as that may feel) is only a taste of our ultimate love relationship with God.

Organizations are not just places where people have jobs.

I kept a picture of me kissing my dad's corpse on the forehead in my wallet for years. I'd break it out any time someone showed me a baby picture, just so they would know how it ends.

I don't even understand the connection with 'died for your sins'. He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other? 'I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage'...

Love is in the acts, not in the feels.

You can't know what difference you'll make, but you are part of something. I think so. We all have things we're meant to do. People we're meant to care about. We're all meant to matter.

Everyone playing in the major leagues today owes a debt of gratitude to Mark Fidrych. He brought baseball back to the people. He made it popular again. He helped save the game." - Willie Horton

Conversation, like certain portions of the anatomy, always runs more smoothly when lubricated.

high levels of time spent engaging in media can have a negative impact on romantic relationships, specifically on levels of relational aggression.

A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the Universe and move bits of it about.

My wife is a lovely leathery green, the blue-tongued lizard said; Her eyes are as red as bulldog ants, lurking in holes in her head; Her body is made of the speckled grass, a violet grows on her tongue, And I could watch her for fifty years if nobody blundered along.

Animals, Gerald felt by instinct, were his equals, no matter how small, or ugly, or undistinguished; they were, at a level beyond the merely sentimental, his friends and companions - often his only ones, for he had no great rapport with other children. And the animals, in their turn, sensed this, and responded accordingly, not just when he was a boy on Corfu but throughout all the years of his life.