Quotes About Connection

Change is the manifestation of our ability to grow and become. When it occurs in those nearest and dearest to us it is an opportunity for celebration. When it happens in ourselves, it allows us to share ourselves on a new level. When we try to protect others from the awareness of our changes, we are being dishonest. No one can care for who we are unless they know who we are.

ONE WHO HAS been chosen for friendship by an animal is a lucky person indeed.

Weet je... misschien... nee, niet misschien, ik weet het wel heel zeker: een mens redt het alleen maar als er een andere mens is die van hem houdt.

Imagine that your own children, who you brought into the world, just walk past you. It's enough to make anybody crazy.

Les plus fous d'entre eux s'aimèrent. Bô et Hama furent de ceux-là.

Merci d'avoir fait le premier pas vers nos retrouvailles, car de mon côté, plus les jours passaient et moins j'osais.

Même si je deviens grand, j'ai toujours besoin de toi, hein ?

Orféus s'approcha, tout près. Il y eut un silence. Malva ferma les yeux et, avec une douceur infinie, Orféus posa ses lèvres sur les siennes. À cet instant, leurs cœurs devinrent semblables aux étoiles jumelles qui brillaient dans le ciel : deux petites points lumineux au milieu des ténèbres immenses de l'univers.

APART. Such a simple concept. So concrete. So easy to represent on charts or diagrams with dots and pushpins either in or out. Yet real life is not dots. Some of us appear to be in, but we are out. And that is where we want to be. Not just want but need, the way tuna need the sea. Simple: an orientation, not just a choice. A fact. To paraphrase that Boston song, more than a feeling. We are loners. Which means we are at our best, as Orsino says in Twelfth Night, when least in company.

We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.

After what others would call a fun day out together, we feel as if we have been at the Red Cross, donating blood.

Not that I was incapable of friendship. 'Don't be shy', the teachers coaxed. I was not shy, only extremely choosy. And Denise shone like a diamond. If you had to ask me to define paradise, I would have said a desert island which Denise could visit, on a boat.

Loners can play well with others-the right others

Åžems'in dönüÅŸünden sonra Mevlânâ'yla kar??laÅŸmas?na iliÅŸkin bir tasvire sahibiz: 'KucaklaÅŸt?lar birbirlerine secdeler ettiler, öyle ki kim â??kt?r, kim mâÅŸuk anla??lmad?.

The metaphors that Sumnun the Lover used to express the ineffable experience of this love, of which he was only a fragile vessel, are not taken from the vocabulary of worldly love. Rather, they are perfectly chaste, lucid, almost immaterial: "I have separated my heart from this world— My heart and Thou are not separate. And when slumber closes my eyes, I find Thee between the eye and the lid." (A 10:310)

Es wäre natürlich ganz und gar verfehlt, das aufzuschreiben, worüber Margot und ich halbe Tage und Nächte lang reden, so intensiv und ehrlich von beiden Seiten, dass man sich fast um Kopf und Kragen redet. (Brief an Klaus Mann, 23. Juli 1940)

You know very well that no one can enter the heart of another and become as one, not even for the shortest moment. Even your mother only made you flesh, and at your first breath you breathed in solitude

I am left with the magic, the name, the heart miraculously touched.

Ver a una mujer, y sentir en ese mismo instante que también ella me ha visto, que sus ojos interrogantes han quedado prendados de mí cómo si no tuviéramos más remedio que encontranos en el umbral de lo ignoto, de esa frontera oscura y melancólica de la conciencia...

Ver a una mujer, y sentir en ese mismo instante que también ella me ha visto, que sus ojos interrogantes han quedado prendados de mí cómo si no tuviéramos más remedio que encontrarnos en el umbral de lo ignoto, de esa frontera oscura y melancólica de la conciencia...

Corporate anthropologist Karen Stephenson argues that though trust is the natural glue of human connection since prehistoric times, it is mostly absent in modern hierarchies—especially in government, where vertical silos compete with and undermine one another, often within the same bureaucracy.

building a network—connecting people or institutions in specific ways for specific purposes—is a far better starting point than a strategy of deterrence, cooperation, or coordination with another government.

To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.

I feared they'd never have that special connection. The covenant between a mother and child is powerful, but if it's broken....