Quotes About Connection

An effective network is not a unidirectional conduit of benefits; it thrives on mutual exchange and support.

People who supported Obama felt like they formed a relationship, that they were being spoken to. The way that campaign worked and the way he's worked during his first term is to make people feel like he's grasping their hand, whether it's by tweeting or email, moments after an event, sometimes during an event. It makes people relate to him.

But if familiarity breeds contempt, it also fosters a bond—

We're like two peas in a pod""Pity the pod

I watched you while you were sleeping and you looked completely at peace. I wish I could feel that. I wish I could close my eyes and feel at peace. But I can't. I can't feel anything if I'm not with you, and even then all I can do is want something that I don't think I can ever have, at least not now. so I left this, and my peace, with you. Stark.

Walls don't work. … Instead of building walls to create security, we need to build bridges.

It was amazing that a play that seems dated in this world... A man whose best friend is a six-foot white rabbit... But it caught on, especially with young people - they surprised me most of all.

His absence has only made him more present.

At the docking ring, before the group separated, Picard went to Sisko and the two men shook hands solemnly. "I'm sorry that this is what has brought us together after so many years," he began. "What there is between you and I… I would have liked the opportunity to know you better.

could heard him.

Wesley reached out across the infinite, and he found— —Enterprise.

As a veteran journalist who covered both sides of the waterfront once remarked, had a path been paved across the Hudson, Chelsea and Hoboken would have made one neighborhood.

My head cocked toward the sky, I cannot get off the ground, and, you passing over again, fast, perfect, and unwilling to tell me that you are doing well, or that it was mistake that placed you in that world, and me in this; or that misfortune placed these worlds in us.

And then the streetlights came on as always and we looked into one another's eyes— ancient caves with still pools and those little transparent fish who have never seen even one ray of light. And the calm that returned to us was not even our own. (from: 'Never Again the Same')

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me. It's not as if I sit down and play 'Fire and Rain' by myself, just to hear it again. But to offer it up... the energy that it somehow summons live takes me right back, and I do get a reconnection to the emotions.

I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.

Though 'Fire and Rain' is very personal, for other people it resonates as a sort of commonly held experience... And that's what happens with me. I write things for personal reasons, and then in some cases it... can be a shared experience.

Performing is a profound experience, at least for me.

Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

Love is what you've been through with somebody

The dog has seldom been successful in pulling man up to its level of sagacity, but man has frequently dragged the dog down to his.

Ride close together. Remember laughter. You'll need it even in the blessed isles of Ever After.

Well, if I called the wrong number, why did you answer the phone?

The primary movement in the text is not from unity to differentiation, but from the isolation of an individual to the deep blessing of shared kinship and community.