Quotes About Connection

We may freak out globally, but we suffer locally.

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

There are moments that you suffer a lot, moments you won't photograph. There are some people you like better than others. But you give, you receive, you cherish, you are there. When you are really there, you know when you see the picture later what you are seeing.

Reading aloud to other people is wonderful - if you have people who will suffer it.

I think we all suffer the same pain, all feel the same happiness, and we all have the same emotions within us.

Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.

I'm still a farm boy at heart. If I hadn't suffered from asthma as a child, I would be a farmer today.

After 'A Perfect Storm' came out, I heard from a young reader, who had suffered a similar background as 'Arizona,' that I had helped her to find peace. That was the most amazing thing in the world to me.

It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

I feel the audience are friends that have come to see us. That was always how we look on it in the Carter Family. I've never suffered stage fright.

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend.

Listening moves us closer, it helps us become more whole, more healthy, more holy. Not listening creates fragmentation, and fragmentation is the root of all suffering.

I believe we are all connected to other people. I am connected to people who are suffering. We all are.

I have a collective sense of suffering.

Mindfulness helps you to be where you are when you're there. When I'm interacting with constituents who are suffering, that matters.

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

Tell the people... please, tell the people of Alabama that I love them. Tell them I'm suffering a lot, but I love them.

In our own lives and in our communities, we need to find a way to include others rather than exclude them. We need to find a way to allow our pain and suffering, individually and collectively.

I always cause those who are near to me more suffering than pleasure.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

One way to make a baby cry is to expose it to cries of other babies. There's sort of contagiousness to the crying. It's not just crying. We also know that if a baby sees another human in silent pain, it will distress the baby. It seems part of our very nature is to suffer at the suffering of others.

Every single person suffers; every marriage has some major battles. Life pulls you in different directions. But if you try, and you're lucky, you can find your way back to each other.