Quotes About Connection

Each of us is tempted to make relationships the end rather than the means

relationships when they were meant to point us to the perfect relational satisfaction found only with God.

Why bother with other people?

Yet something keeps dragging us back to other people. We know we are less than human when we are all alone.

We live with this tension between self-protective isolation and the dream for meaningful relationships.

Kindness to your family costs you almost nothing but affords a wealth of goodwill.

If you are meant to be together, loving each other should be easy.

History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.

If we can avoid doing violence to the minds of unseen others on the internet, others will learn to do the same. And then perhaps our internet traffic will cease to look like one great, bloody accident.

Make eye contact and small talk.

Having old friends is the politics of last resort.

To find other people incomprehensible is to abandon the search for understanding, and thus to abandon history.

What the glorious retellings of the history of Irgun and Lehi often omit is the Polish connection.

Every man has a name given by the stars given by his neighbors. —ZELDA MISHKOVSKY, 1974

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Governments and entire planets are important, Threepio. But when you sift everything down, they're all just made of people.

Having a baby is like falling in love again, both with your husband and your child.

If he could hope for anything in that moment, it was to embrace the true soul of another person, and to know that he was embraced as well.

Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. — Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

Inhale, and God approaches you. Hold the inhalation, and God remains with you. Exhale, and you approach God. Hold the exhalation, and surrender to God.

Nuestros dos corazones son uno. Mi alfa y mi omega. Mi principio y mi fin".

If I were the rain. . . that binds together the Earth and the sky, whom in all eternity will never mingle. . . Would I be able to bind two hearts together?

If I were rain, That joins sky and earth that otherwise never touch, Could I join two hearts as well?

When someone changes your world, that's when you know he's important to you.