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Quotes About Connection

Man, we know, cannot live by bread alone but hang me if I don't believe that some women could live by love alone.
~ Joseph Conrad
La voz de las olas de vez en cuando era un verdadero placer, como la conversación de un hermano. Era algo natural, que tenía su razón, que tenía su significado.
~ Joseph Conrad
cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.
~ Joseph Conrad
Give them all of my dear love and a kiss. Tell them I think of them by day, pray for them by night, and find my best comfort in their affection at all times.
~ Joseph Conrad
There can be no life without faith and love—faith in a human heart, love of a human being! That
~ Joseph Conrad
The parts of a sentence which are most closely connected with one another in meaning should be closely connected in order also.
~ Joseph Devlin
comma: John, you are a good man. In numeration, commas are used to express periods of three figures: Mountains 25,000 feet high; 1,000,000 dollars. The Semicolon marks a slighter connection than the
~ Joseph Devlin
wasn't like today, when if you don't tell your kid you love him every twenty minutes you could go to jail for child abuse.
~ Joseph Epstein
You know what's wrong with the world today, bro? The computers. They're ruining the human race." "Computers?" "You ever see elks mate?" Russell said.
~ Joseph Finder
from the pack, offered it to
~ Joseph Finder
The intent here is not to suppress whatever feelings we may have, but to communicate in a way that fosters connection rather than divisiveness.
~ Joseph Goldstein
At first, as we undertake the cultivation of compassion, we may feel genuine empathy with others in pain or difficulty. This happens when we take the time to stop and feel what is really going on—even for just a few moments before rushing on with our lives.
~ Joseph Goldstein
We are each going to die alone. It is necessary to come to terms with our basic aloneness, to become comfortable with it. The mind can become strong and peaceful in that understanding, making possible a beautiful communion with others. When we understand ourselves, then relationships become easy and meaningful
~ Joseph Goldstein
An interviewer once asked Mother Teresa what she says to God when she prays. "I don't say anything," she replied. "I just listen." Then the interviewer asked her what God says to her. "He doesn't say anything," said Mother Teresa. "He just listens. And if you don't understand that, I can't explain it to you."1
~ Joseph Goldstein
Let's take a drive into the middle of nowhere with a packet of Marlboro lights and talk about our lives.
~ Joseph Heller
But how can one be warm alone?
~ Joseph Heller
Because he needed a friend so desperately, he never found one.
~ Joseph Heller
Szégyenkezve és reménykedve keresett új kapcsolatokat, és mindig kiábrándult. Mert olyan elkeseredetten keresett barátokat, sohasem talált egyet se.
~ Joseph Heller
Mi problema con la soledad es que la compañía de otros nunca ha sido una cura para ella.
~ Joseph Heller
Why couldn't anybody understand that he was not really a freak but a normal, lonely adult trying to lead a normal, lonely adult life?
~ Joseph Heller
She slept for eighteen hours, while Nately dashed about the apartment all the next morning shushing everybody in sight, and when she woke up she was deeply in love with him. In the last analysis, that was all it took to win her heart - a good night's sleep.
~ Joseph Heller
Why couldn't anybody understand that he was not really a freak but a normal, lonely adult trying to lead a normal, lonely adult life? If they pricked him, didn't he bleed? And if he was tickled, didn't he laugh? It
~ Joseph Heller
He was genuinely sorry for Yossarian; when Yossarian realized that, he was genuinely sorry for Rogoff.
~ Joseph Heller
They had not brains enough to be introverted and repressed. Cronies
~ Joseph Heller