Quotes About Connection

Who then can so softly bind up the wound of another as he who has felt the same wound himself.

Friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life.

Gifts of the Holy Spirit grow in direct proportion to the depth and sincerity of our love.

Let Love Alone speak

St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.

Where am I? Where am I in relation to God, to myself, and to others? These are the basic questions of human life.

I think that you've got to make something that pleases you and hope that other people feel the same way.

When we eat together, when we set out to do so deliberately, life is better, no matter what your circumstances.

O God, You Who are the truth, make me one with You in love everlasting. I am often wearied by the many things I hear and read, but in You is all that I long for. Let the learned be still, let all creatures be silent before You; You alone speak to me.

I think that many non-Natives find it hard to understand why Native people are willing to fight so hard to protect their land. In the case of Gwaii Haanas, all you have to do is stand at the ocean's edge with the cedars at your back and the sky on your shoulders, and you will know.

Cherish the people who make up your home, and you'll notice the hearth fires burn brighter than ever before.

Every conversation, every cuddle, aver kiss and caress, even every disagreement, adds another brushstroke to the picture of home you paint with the days and hours of your life.

My grandfather felt at home with his lunatics.

In Catcher in the Rye , the protagonist Holden Caulfield mentions reading books that make him wish he could be friends with the author and be able to call him on the phone and so forth. I would consider a literary work that made someone feel this way a success. Furthermore, it's the only kind of success in literature that means anything to me.

For ages they had been without lives of their own. The whole of their being was open to the world and nothing divided them from the rest of creation.

He said to me, 'The book has found its reader,' and what could I do but agree with him?

To think that another person shared my love for the icy bleakness of things .

Grief is the tax we pay on our attachments...

Grief is the price we pay for being close to one another. If we want to avoid our grief, we simply avoid each other.

I think maybe Gladstone had it right. I think my father did. They understood that the meaning of life is connected, inextricably, to the meaning of death; that mourning is a romance in reverse, and if you love, you grieve and there are no exceptions---only those who do it well and those who don't.

The bodies of the newly dead are not debris nor remnant, nor are they entirely icon or essence. They are, rather, changelings, incubates, hatchlings of a new reality that bear our names and dates, our image and likenesses, as surely in the eyes and ears of our children and grandchildren as did word of our birth in the ears of our parents and their parents. It is wise to treat such new things tenderly, carefully, with honor.

Creativeness is the ability to see relationships where none exist.

All modern social, political, and sociological ills can be traced to social media.

Trump survived all of this, seized the Republican nomination, and won, because in the end, he connected with a particular kind of voter who believes that knowing about things like America's nuclear deterrent is just so much pointy-headed claptrap.