Quotes About Connection

He said, "Don't get me wrong. I want to hear everything about your life. But I want you to know that you don't need to tell me this to get me to love you. You don't have to be broken for me.

Practice saying the word "love" to the people you love so when it matters the most to say it, you will.

I happen to believe America is dying of loneliness, and we as people have are into the stream of convenience and turn away from our deep lives.

If you take that risk, if you take that chance, if you tell the truest, hardest, deepest story you have within you, you're not going to step into the light and find that you're there alone. That you're going to be surrounded by people who are there with you.

You're here. So be here, dear one. You're okay with us for now.

That mystery is not the curse of our existence; it's the wonder. It's what people are talking about when they talk about the circle of life that we're all part of whether we sign up to be or not—the living, the dead, those being born right this moment, and the others who are fading out.

she told me that she was grateful for him because without him she wouldn't have had my siblings and me.

Your behavior and words will deeply impact your child's life—both how he or she feels about his or her father and also how he or she feels about him or herself.

I learned then what I have learned in many other ways over the course of my life: that when we're in the presence of someone else's pain, the burden of not-doing is so much greater than the burden of doing. Doing lifts the burden. Even if it's a small thing. Like writing a letter.

I got you," my friend the writer and teacher Jen Pastiloff says so often she has it tattooed on her arm. That's what this vespers thing felt like to me, Spent. Like someone had me. Like for the tiniest glimmer of a moment I was held by a force more powerful than the force I could muster on my own.

I've long believed literature's greatest superpower is how it makes us feel less alone.

How frightened those kittens were, and yet how they persisted. How when two strangers offered up their palms, they stepped in.

I want to see the contours of your second beating heart.

What are your spiritual beliefs? I do not believe in God as most people conceive of God, but I believe there is a divine spirit in each of us. I believe there is something bigger than our individual selves that we can touch when we live our lives with integrity, compassion, and love.

There is a world of people out there who will love you for who you are. A whole, vibrant, fucked-up, happy, conflicted and joyous mass of people.

We're hurtling through time and space and information faster and faster, seeking that network connection. But at the same time we're falling away from our families and our neighbors and ourselves. We ego-surf and update our status and brush up on which celebrities are ruining themselves, and how. But the cure won't stick.

I believe there is something bigger than our individual selves that we can touch when we live our lives with integrity, compassion, and love.

I never forgot you, even after all these years," she told me. "I'm so proud of you," I said, squeezing her shoulder. "I made it," she said. "Didn't I?" "You did," I said. "You absolutely did." I never forgot her either. Her name was Desiré.

I'd silently send my love to them across the universe in the way people have sent their silent love across the universe to the people they love throughout all time, and I would know in my heart that they had received it. I would be at peace.

Every life, Tranströmer writes, "has a sister ship," one that follows "quite another route" than the one we ended up taking.

True intimacy isn't a psychodrama. It isn't the "highest highs and lowest lows". It's communion and mellow compatibility. It's friendship and mutual respect.

But I want you to know that you don't need to tell me this to get me to love you. You don't have to be broken for me.

Love is our essential nutrient. Without it, life has little meaning. It's the best thing we have to give and the most valuable thing we receive. It's worthy of all the hullabaloo.

I want your lives to have purpose & passion. I wish to meet all of you so I can tell you how much I love all of you.