Quotes About Connection

Church attendance is as vital to a disciple as a transfusion of rich, healthy blood to a sick man.

The preceding chapter tells you how to communicate with your readers. With words. What should you as a fiction writer communicate? Feelings.

Things don't have feelings. Events don't. Places don't. But people do. And things and events and places can create feelings in people . . . trigger an amazing range of individual reactions.

And so it goes with words and language. They're tools. All your writing life, you work with them . . . using them to tie your reader to your story.

When I'm with you, my world is complete. When I touch you, I understand the meaning of life. When I lost you, I completely shattered. You. Own. Me.

It's by what you do that you communicate to others that you are deeply involved in their well being.

When you read a great book, you don't escape from life, you plunge deeper into it.

Adoption has been a part of my life and a part of my family, so it was how I wanted to start. It felt natural and right to me.

I just look for someone who makes me feel like life is an exciting opportunity and, you know, just like to be alive.

The business of business is relationships; the business of life is human connection.

Swallow the stars until you are one with the universe, with all-pervading universal life.

In all your life, you will never find a method more effective in getting through to another person than to make that person feel important.

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

I mean family is more important than anything in life. Family is important than my crew, D-Block, my rap career anything... It's the most important aspect of a person's life.

As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.

A life without friends means death without company. (Adiskidegabeko bizita, auzogabeko heriotza.) —BASQUE PROVERB

The happiest I have ever been is in the life that I led with my wife and kids.

Life without friends is death without witness.

I said, "I need to hear something that's going to save my life." Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder to each other ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Art should become as one with its surroundings.

My Open Hearts Family celebrates not only the traditional family but also extended families that we create from the people we open our hearts to as we journey through life.

We are all alone, trapped in these bodies and our own minds, and whatever company we have in this life is only fleeting and superficial.