Quotes About Connection

also have electricity and running water," Garvey said. "You really are a dinosaur. If you aren't on social media, you might as well be dead.

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The truth, that I haven't heard from you since your press conference. What kind of daughter doesn't call her mother after a lunatic blows his brains out in her living room?

People break down after a couple of hours. All the defenses go down, and there's a kind of communication that if I spent 20 years in a living room with one of these people, I would never, never know as much about them as I do in that one day.

You can choose your friends but you sho' can't choose your family, an' they're still kin to you no matter whether you acknowledge 'em or not, and it makes you look right silly when you don't.

It's quite a thing, if you've never been in or known a small southern town. The people are not particularly sophisticated, naturally. They're not worldly wise in any way. But they tell you a story whenever they see you.

The heartbreak of this planet is healing. It may not seem so, but it is. Heartbreak is healing on a planetary level. That is why hearts are breaking. So, lead with your hearts both for yourself and for others. Where you share your love with others, you lead with your hearts. None of you acknowledge yourselves enough for this. And where you lead with your hearts, you the lead the way for others to open their hearts.

The only rock I know that stays steady, the only institution I know that works, is the family.

I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.

Talk to people in their own language. If you do it well, they'll say, 'God, he said exactly what I was thinking.' And when they begin to respect you, they'll follow you to the death.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Love will not serve those who do not live for her, and in her, and to whom she is not the breath of life.

But Daisy saw the colour ebb from his face, the light leave his eyes, and reached him first, and it was Daisy who caught him as he fell.

The only thing I know now is that we're all connected, everyone of us, even people we don't know.

You have this scent" Hana said quietly, "I used to think it was your perfume. Joy, ne?" "I still wear that." "I know," Hana said, and Etsuko resisted the urge to sniff her own wrists. "It's not just the perfume, though, it's all the other creams and things that you wear, and it makes up this smell. I used to walk around department stores wondering what it was. The smell of mama." Book 3, p401

Do I care about these other branches? Should I? There is always the chance that at some time in the future an empty branch recombines with my branch, causing interference, which changes my life

If you weren't fine, I wouldn't even bother with you.

Oh, love. Love is best of all. There is no such total element, not even pain. Who has ever loved, knows this. I need not say more.

I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.

They pushed closer. Chest to chest. Belly to belly. Two edges of a wound needing to heal.

The fine art of Life is to make Another Soul vibrate with a song of joy.

What is love? To be delighted by the happiness of another.

To love is to find pleasure in the perfection of another.

It is one thing to be sick of your own infirmities and another to understand that the people you love most are sick of them also. You are very near then to being friendless in this world.