Quotes About Connection

My mom, we had a relationship. I knew she loved me. I always knew she loved me. But she didn't, openly or overtly, express, you know, affection and love.

The thing about the Internet is the openness. People can link to each other themselves.

If I create anything, I create the atmosphere of trust and openness.

Maybe people don't understand my openness. In fact, if someone randomly comes and hugs me, I'd hug them right back. I am all for free hugs that make people happy.

Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.

Love grounds you. It orients you. Love brings your awareness to others and yourself. Love opens your mind and heart to others and yourself. Love settles you and gives you balance.

I think me having kids is helpful. It opens up a new little area of your heart.

When we shift back to feeling the sensations in our body and connect to what's in front of us, the creative channel opens up.

I read to my children, and now they love to read. I encourage parents to carve out just 20 minutes a day. It helps you learn more about them, and really opens the door for you to speak into their life!

I'm not a person who opens up to people, and I feel like music is my way of doing that.

The emergence of a child opens up this well of love that you just never knew you were able to have. And it's empowering.

It's important that the art forms communicate, whether it's the dance program with the jazz program or the classical program with the opera program, that these conversations becomes fluid.

I love 'Threepenny Opera'; I was exposed to it as a little kid because my parents, my mom and my dad, had bonded, when they were dating, over 'Threepenny Opera' and introduced it to me, a child, who could barely understand it. But I immediately gravitated even from that early age.

Love is the highest frequency we can operate on.

I grew up with such an affinity to cats. I adore the way that they think and operate.

I operate with an emotional fearlessness, and I really feel music; I really feel songs.

Granted, everybody is different, but I think it's real important to know all the people that you are around, and how they operate their history, and things like that. You know where they are coming from a little bit, and you don't insult them, or take something for granted.

I grew up on the side of the stage. I never had a fear of an audience. I never felt like they were separated from us. We were all in the living room, and it happens to be a big living room. I continue to operate on that assumption.

Some people don't operate in that way: they can't understand how much strength comes from being compassionate and lifting other people up.

Humor is a huge part of the way I operate; if people can't understand a joke then they should not follow me.

When you're so used to operating the camera, it's an extension of your eye and your heart and your head.

Interdependence is a fact, it's not an opinion.

Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way: But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say;

And the child smiled on the Giant, and said to him, 'You let me play once in your garden, to-day you shall come with me to my garden, which is Paradise.