Quotes About Connection

A person cannot betray another person's True Self for long without causing serious damage to the relationship. In order to grow, the Child Within should feel trusted and be able to trust others.

The final need is unconditional love. This is a difficult concept for many to understand. I discuss this need further in Chapter 15.

spirituality is about the relationships that we have with our self, with others and with the universe." (pg. 127).

No matter which concern, problem or life-issue we may want to work on, risking and beginning to talk about it with a safe person or persons is a way out of the unnecessary burden of remaining silent. And when we tell our story from our hearts, bones and guts, we discover the truth about ourselves. Doing so is healing

Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

Presents, I often say, endear absents.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds.

A book reads the better which is our own, and has been so long known to us, that we know the topography of its blots, and dog's ears, and can trace the dirt in it to having read it at tea with buttered muffins.

I love to lose myself in other men's minds

Friend of my bosom, thou more than a brother, Why wert thou not born in my father's dwelling?

Navin, who never had children, felt close to Cobb from the day he met him, a nervous, travel-worn C-leaguer who had just lost his father under appalling circumstances. The two would excoriate (and extol) each other over the years as only a father figure and son-substitute could.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Why can't we get all the people together in the world that we really like and then just stay together? I guess that wouldn't work. Someone would leave. Someone always leaves. Then we would have to say good-bye. I hate good-byes. I know what I need. I need more hellos.

Dear Valentine, I love you. Whoever you are.

A kiss on the nose does much toward turning aside anger.

I don't think God wants to be worshiped. I think the only pure worship of God is by loving one another, and I think all other forms of worship became a substitute for the love that we should show one another.

Valentine, just a few words to tell you how I love you. I have loved you since the first day I saw you. Whenever that was.

Dear Valentine, I have thought of you often. Not all the time, but often.

Grownups are the ones who puzzle me at Christmastime...Who, but a grownup, would ruin a beautiful holiday season for himself by suddenly attempting to correspond with four hundred people he doesn't see all year?

Dear Sweetheart, do you ever think of me? Just the other day I was thinking of you. I'm pretty sure it was you.

Dear Sweetheart, Without you my days are endless. Days seem like weeks... Weeks feel like months... Months like years... Years like centuries... Centuries like... You get the idea.

Sometimes, when you walk by the home of the girl you love, you can see her standing by the window... She waves at you, and you wave back... But it's her grandmother...

Do you think if two people liked the same thing, it could bring them closer together?" "Certainly... Take classical music, for instance... Two people who shared a love for Beethoven could become very close..." "How about TV?