Quotes About Connection

no matter how difficult our own journey, sometimes the only thing that can ease our path is to stop for a while and gather strength by lifting someone else's burden.

We are each of us angels with one wing. And we can only fly embracing each other.

so many parts of him live on in Christopher. But love is a funny thing, isn't it? When you open your heart to it once, it becomes that much easier to open it again.

Her sister continued to stare

anyone who has no feelings for animals has a dead heart.

After puberty, you look to one sex for more than friendship and to the other for less-than-complete intimacy.

Being abroad gave me the tongue of a child, and soon it gave me a child's heart to match. You know that heart and tongue are made from the same flesh.

Parenting is a process of mutual growth, during which parents and children grow on different levels through their interactions and through the elements they bring into one another's lives.

Weird...something happens when you smile at people. They smile back

What are the chances you'd ever meet someone like that? he wondered. Someone you could love forever, someone who would forever love you back? And what did you do when that person was born half a world away? The math seemed impossible.

Holding Eleanor's hand was like holding a butterfly. Or a heartbeat. Like holding something complete, and completely alive.

The first time he'd held her hand, it felt so good that it crowded out all the bad things. It felt better than anything had ever hurt.

Are we, perhaps, here just for saying: House.Bridge, Fountain, Gate, Jug, Fruit tree, Window,—possibly: Pillar, Tower?

Love consists in this, that two solitudes protect and touch and greet each other.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.

When I saw others straining toward God, I did not understand it, for though I may have had him less than they did, there was no one blocking the way between him and me, and I could reach his heart easily. It is up to him, after all, to have us, our part consists of almost solely in letting him grasp us.

A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.

For one human being to love another human being That is perhaps the most difficult task that has been entrusted to us, the ultimate task

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see each other whole against the sky.

We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it.

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other.

Extinguish my eyes, I'll go on seeing you. Seal my ears, I'll go on hearing you. And without feet I can make my way to you, without a mouth I can swear your name. Break off my arms, I'll take hold of you with my heart as with a hand. Stop my heart, and my brain will start to beat. And if you consume my brain with fire, I'll feel you burn in every drop of my blood.

only someone who is ready for everything, who doesn't exclude any experience, even the most incomprehensible, will live the relationship with another person as something alive and will himself sound the depths of his own being.