Quotes About Connection

shaped people's behavior by inviting them to come together and to linger.

There is a message for all city makers here. It is that with the right triangulation, even the ugliest of places can be infused with the warmth that turns strangers into familiars by giving us enough reason to slow down.

Most people's root networks are closing in on themselves, circling more and more tightly around spouses, partners, parents and kids. These are our most important relationships, but every arborist knows that a tree with a small root-ball is more likely to fall over when the wind blows.

It means living closer together and sharing more spaces, walls, and vehicles. It means collecting experiences rather than objects.

There is no surprise more magical than the surprise of being loved

The strangers we encounter on the web are abstractions, not a physical presence—we are interfacing with them, not interacting.

The human impulse behind the isolation of class is as basic as impulses get: People like to be around other people who understand them and to whom they can talk.

Whatever you have to say, leave The roots on, let them Dangle And the dirt Just to make clear Where they come from.

the soul is / proprioceptive

The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.

A poem is a 'line' between any two points in creation.

Love is rarer than genius itself. And friendship is rarer than love.

To exist is to be betrayed, since we exist for others only by virtue of what we betray of ourselves to them.

We don't exist in and for ourselves but only in as much as we are re-created in the imagination of another person— by entering that person's life as fully as possible. I mean, entering it imaginatively, intellectually, physically and emotionally with all the conflicts that that makes inevitable.

communication simply requires

Lucille Biggers Langford and Florence Mabry Whiteside. As the

She took him by the ears and blew into his nostrils to give him a start, then looked into his eyes to see what she had surprised there.

Each day of our lives we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.

Art is the bridge across the gap between peoples and cultures. Writing is one of the arts that can help link people.

Moje my?li przypominaj? teraz starohebrajski - maj? tylko dwa czasy, przesz?y i przysz?y: by?em i b?d? z tob?.

My thoughts have become like the ancient Hebrew in two tenses only, past and future - I was and I shall be with you.

When I communicate my thought and my sentiments to a friend with whom I am in full sympathy, so that my feelings pass into him and I am conscious of what he feels, do I not live in his brain as well as in my own—most literally?

The idea does not belong to the soul; it is the soul that belongs to the idea.

Relatable is the secret of success.