Quotes About Connection

The Passion Trap: How to Right an Unbalanced Relationship by relationship therapist and psychologist Dean C. Delis.

Many people feel that when they are overwhelmed or lose focus, they need to retreat into themselves and shut out the world. They think that there is greater merit and virtue in figuring things out alone. That doesn't work for me. I find myself, and activate my greatest creative capacities, in relationship with the beautiful diversity of other human beings.

Tell to Win: Connect, Persuade, and Triumph with the Hidden Power of Story, which was an instant #1 New York Times bestseller.

What you seek is seeking you." —RUMI

First, whenever possible, connect with others. Second, with enthusiasm, strive always to create fun and delight for others. And third, lean into each moment and encounter expecting magic—or miracles.

Success" need not be complicated. Just start with making 1,000 people extremely, extremely happy.

Look for a partner you'll try to impress daily, and one who will try to impress you." Over the last couple decades, I've noticed that the best, most enduring partnerships in business (and in life) are among people who are constantly growing together. If the person you choose to depend on is constantly striving to learn and improve, you too will push yourself to new levels of achievement, and neither of you will feel like you have settled for someone you eventually outgrow.

Leonard Cohen, even though when I met him I was too tongue-tied to say anything. Anyway, I've given away a number of copies of his Book of Longing, since it articulates a sense of the compassionate

When we fail to reason honestly, we have lost our connection to the world and to one another.

Primero, edito para mí (¿qué me gusta?). En segundo lugar edito para mis seguidores (¿qué sería lo más entretenido y útil para mis seguidores?).

It's a matter of reminding yourself what your purpose in life is, right? What you're here for. If you haven't connected with what your purpose and mission in life is, then forget anything I've said. That is the number-one thing you need to do: Find out what you need to be doing on this planet, why you were put here, and what wakes you up in the mornings.

The truth is that the pain of broken trust and betrayed friendship is simply the cost of caring and deeply connecting to others.

Happiness shared in the form of friendships and love is happiness multiplied.

To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children . . . to leave the world a bit better . . . to know even one life has breathed easier because you lived. This is to have succeeded."—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cómo ganar amigos e influir sobre las personas en la era digital (Elipse, 2016), de Dale Carnegie.

En igualdad de condiciones, para incrementar tu felicidad, lo único que hay que hacer es desearle a cualquier otra persona elegida al azar que sea feliz.

Looking somebody in the eye . . . is often the antidote for what is ailing us.

If you spend 2 hours a day without an electronic device, looking your kid in the eye, talking to them and solving interesting problems, you will raise a different kid than someone who doesn't do that. That's one of the reasons why I cook dinner every night. Because what a wonderful, semi-distracted environment in which the kid can tell you the truth. For you to have low-stakes but superimportant conversations with someone who's important to you." ON

Friendship is born at the moment when one person says to another: 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one.'"—C. S. Lewis

El punto de partida es el corazón, no la razón

People don't like being sold products, but we all like being told stories. Work

never forget that underneath all the math and the MBA bullshit talk, we are all still emotionally driven human

NVC has a magical way of instantly defusing potential conflicts with anyone, from a partner to a server to a friend to someone at work. One of its many great premises is that no two people's needs are ever in conflict. It's only the strategies for getting those needs met that are in conflict.

siempre que te encuentres con alguien le digas en tu cabeza "te quiero