Quotes About Connection

Life without a friend is death without a witness.

No one is rich enough to do without a neighbor.

The road to a friend's house is never long.

All you ever longed for is Before you in this moment If you dare draw in a Breath and whisper "Yes.

Let nothing keep you separate from the truth. The soul, illumined from within, longs to be known for what it is.

Trust the energy that Courses through you. Trust Then take surrender even deeper. Be the energy. Don't push anything away. Follow each Sensation back to its source In vastness and pure presence.

Humans are powerful spiritual beings meant to create good on the earth," he said. "This good isn't usually accomplished in bold actions, but in singular acts of kindness between people.

The extraordinary thing about India is that it's such a family place. It's full of families everywhere.

I don't want people to sit there and objectively watch the film. I want them to experience it as something that's under their skin, so you try to make the films really tactile.

My parakeet died. We were playing badminton.

The son has always felt like he was a footnote in one of the stories the father tells. The father is an amazing storyteller and one of the tales that he tells is how he met his wife.

There are two dilemmas that rattle the human skull How do you hang on to someone who won't stay And how do you get rid of someone who won't go

I keep returning to the last chorus of All Apologies, where Kurt sang: 'In the sun, I feel as one / All in all is all we are.' And to these lines from his journals: 'No true talent is fully organic. Yet the obviously superior talented have not only control of study, but that extra special little gift at birth fueled by passion. A built-in, totally spiritual, unexplainable, new age, fucking cosmic, energy-bursting love.

Remember: Writing is drawing.

An artist is someone who sees and feels realty very intensely. Creativity doesn't mean just making things up out of thin air. It means seeing and feeling the world so vividly that you can put together connections and patterns that help to explain reality. It means you see the beauty in the world rather than trying to hide from it.

[Language is] really a pretty amazing invention if you think about it. Here I have a very complicated, messy, confused idea in my head. I'm sitting here making grunting sounds and hopefully constructing a similar messy, confused idea in your head that bears some analogy to it.

Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

In the end, what's most meaningful is creating positive, uplifting outcomes for human experiences and human relationships. Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It's that simple, and it's that hard.

hospitality … is the sum of all the thoughtful, caring, gracious things out staff does to make you feel we are on your side when you are dining with us.

Business, like life, is all about how you make people feel. It

To go through the motions in a perfunctory or self-absorbed manner, no matter how expertly rendered, diminishes the beauty. It's about soul—and service without soul, no matter how elegant, is quickly forgotten by the guest.

The ABCD strategy —always be collecting dots.

Because isn't to be pursued, to be thought of as special, to be needed by someone somewhere, whether we know them yet or not, all any of us actually want?

I poked a monk.