Quotes About Connection

More and more he was becoming convinced that it was only through children that one could connect with anything anymore, that in this life it was only through children that one came home, became a home, that one was no longer a visitor.

Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.

There are times, I declared, when I believe the dead haunt us because we love them too little.

You don't quit loving somebody just on account of they're dead.

Thus, the brain remains plastic into adulthood and can be changed for the better through positive interpersonal relationships.

Therefore, reading and reacting to other people's behaviors, emotions, and attitudes have been hardwired into our brains. We are not only wired to connect, but we are also wired to attune to, resonate with, and learn from others.

Like neurons, we send and receive messages from one another across a synapse—the social synapse.

It is the power of being with others that shapes our brains.

That's how a woman wins a mans heart, by making him think that he amuses her.

Promise me one thing. He nodded and she continued, Whenever you are about to do something terrible, think of me, and then don't do it.

Dolphins love each other so romantically, so playfully, so completely, that it is obvious that they are sent by God to teach us by their example to do the same.

each of them was better together than either of them could have been apart.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident. Your mother and I had it, we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. But sometimes the petals fall away and the roots have not entwined.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident.

Love is what is left when the passion has gone

The dead can read tears.

Love itself is what is left over when being in love has burned away

A todo o momento vejo coisas que gostaria que visses, gostaria que estivesses aqui para as veres com os teus próprios olhos. Procuro ver coisas para ti, e guarda-las na minha memória, e tenho a fantasia de que se me concentrar mesmo muito, posso fazê-las chegar a ti, para que tu as vejas nos teus sonhos. Como se a vida pudesse ser assim.

Love enters by the eyes and also leaves by the eyes.

We had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two. Louis de Bernieres as quoted in Underland by Robert Macfarlane.

Love itself is what is left over, when being being in love has burned away.

A time comes when you are all alone...when you've come to the end of everything that can happen to you. It's the end of the world, even grief, your own grief, doesn't answer you anymore, and you have to retrace your steps, to go back among people, it makes no difference who.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

How many time have I talked with people who have ridden the trails where I have ridden, yet had seen nothing? They passed over the land just to get over it, not to live with it and see it, feel it. There was beauty out there...