Quotes About Connection

When I'm off the road, my husband and I recharge our batteries. It's a day of deep rest and connection with the spiritual, and that can be anything - going for a walk in nature, being in silence, burning incense.

And all I need now is intellectual intercourse, a soul to dig the hole much deeper

He's real shy, and he's a little different from everybody else in the way he is inside. He doesn't know how to get close to people, especially males. It was just easier for him to get affection from women.

Readers develop unique histories with the books they read. It may not be immediately apparent at the time of reading, but the person you were when you read the book, the place you were where you read the book, your state of mind while you read it, your personal situation (happy, frustrated, depressed, bored) and so on – all these factors, and others, make the simple experience of reading a book a far more complex and multi-layered affair than might be thought.

I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.

The medieval world then is one in which not only is the scheme of the virtues enlarged beyond an Aristotelian perspective, but above all in which the connection between the distinctively narrative element in human life and the character of the vices comes to the forefront of consciousness and not only in biblical terms.

The individual carries his communal roles with him as part of the definition of his self, even into his isolation.

Sometimes all you need is to climb a simple hill, to spend time staring at an empty horizon, to jump into a cold river or sleep under the stars, or perhaps share a whisky at a small country inn in order to remind yourself what matters most to you in life.

It is normal nowadays to spend most of our lives inside, temperature-controlled, light-switched, water-softened, air-freshened and double-glazed. We have become like babies in incubators, unable to survive in the world. I only sense the sterility of this when my situation is reversed and I spend so much time outside that going in feels strange once more. I am more at peace with myself and the world when I spend an extended period outdoors.

I am more at peace with myself and the world when I spend an extended period outdoors

As long as we stay together, you don't have to worry about the darkness.

For a moment I think we were turned into information, and that in that instant we were linked to every other piece of information ever known; every thought ever thought, or at least ever captured by the light.

I am Chiku Akinya. I am the daughter of Sunday Akinya; I am the grand-daughter of Eunice Akinya – Senge Dongma, the lion-faced one, mother of us all...

Only an evolutionary eyeblink separated Kanu from the savannah, and that was just as true for the Risen. Their minds might be fixed on the stars, but their bodies were only a footstep from the dust and heat of Amboseli.

Surely you can hear him now?

It was good to be loved, good to love another human being – even in the belly of a starship arrowing for unmapped space.

Diamond Dallas Page didn't have that larger-than-life persona, but he had a different connection with the audience.

I loved Carl Perkins, Jerry lee Lewis... not only were they personal friends.

I think if a personal connection seems far off, I have to work and find a way to bring it closer to me, or I don't feel grounded.

The modern world is personal; people want to know intimate things.

Writing from a personal experience can bring about this emotion and power of emotion that can be instantly connected to the instrument, my voice.

I think the Internet has made it easier for people to connect with things that they really like, as well as provide a more personal experience, of 'I found this!' and then you can pass it to friends.

Sometimes you develop a passion for something because of some personal experience.

Cinema is empathy machinery, and we multiply our life experience through cinema. When it is good cinema, it almost counts as a personal experience.