Quotes About Connection

Someone remembers, someone cares; Your name is whispered in someone's prayers.

God understands our prayers even when we can't find the words to say them.

When you're happy, I'm happy. When you're sad, I'm sad. When you're lonely, call me!

I think about you constantly, whether it's with my mind or my heart.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

You have not been abandoned. You are never alone, except by your own choice.

I was a late bloomer, but I had a career as a contemporary dancer before that, so I had some kind of connection to this world. But I was always a little more in love with the drama of dancing than the aesthetics, so I thought, 'Why don't you give it a chance if you think you can do it a little different?'

I would hate to think I'm promoting sadness as an aesthetic. But I grew up in not just a family but a town and a culture where sadness is something you're taught to feel shame about. You end up chronically desiring what can be a very sentimental idea of love and connection. A lot of my work has been about trying to make a space for sadness.

People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don't think that's true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving you a happier life.

The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Thank God for men who manage to hold from afar, wipe tears away with tender words and dish out the life force that is hope. She has never felt so alone but out there, across an ocean, and in a foreign land, there is a man who loves her and would lay down his life just so she could feel the light once again.

People may hear your words, but they feel your attitude.

There's nothing better than having a baby. I've always loved children. I used to work summers at the YMCA and be in charge of, like, 30 preschool kids. I knew that when I had a child, I'd be overwhelmed, and it's true… I can't tell you how much my attitude has changed since we've got Frances. Holding my baby is the best drug in the world.

…Love is the sun of our choices, the strength of our commitments, the ties that bind us together

Every woman deserves a man who writes poems on her body with his lips. And every man deserves a woman who craves his touch.

Don't ever think I feel for you, or feel over you. I didn't fall in love, I rose in it.

The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animals.

Couples who have growing, fulfilling marriages have thought lives that are positive and healthy. What happens between the couples is a reflection of the inner workings of each person's mind and heart.

When you understand your obligations to God then you can understand your obligations to society.

Hermione looked far and far and George was a midge and a leaf was the size of a house and an acorn-cup would shelter herself...for...I am a tree planted by the river of water...I am in the word tree. I am tree exactly.

I mean how can anything one has suggested in Havre or Rouen, have anything to do with anything else of moment in Paris?

The males (of the Hutchinson family that included both religious dissenter Anne and immensely wealthy and politically connected Thomas) were merchants who sought salvation through commerce.

Bushes may not be eloquent explaining emotion, but George HW Bush's mother knew enough to be in position with her children were ready to talk. She waited up not just to ensure safety but to make the most of the moment of excited emotions. The next morning, they would congeal into polite, one-word answers.