Quotes About Connection

is the individual who is not interested in his fellow men who has the greatest difficulties in life and provides the greatest injury to others. It is from among such individuals that all human failures spring.

If the author doesn't like people," he said, "people won't like his or her stories.

How he handles names plays a leading role in this process.

Para ser interesante, hay que interesarse.

It takes the relationship to another level

Aliéntelo a hablar de sí mismo y de sus experiencias.

If you want others to like you, if you want to develop real friendships, if you want to help others at the same time as you help yourself, keep this principle in mind; PRINCIPLE 1 Become genuinely interested in other people.

This is achieved more naturally when the doctor puts himself on the same level of his patients

Haga que la otra persona se sienta importante, y hágalo sinceramente.

customers like to feel that they are buying, not being sold.

It becomes easier for people to relate to us.

Who can resist being around a person who suspends his thoughts in order to value yours?

There are thousands of people like her, people who are ill from "ingratitude," loneliness, and neglect. They long to be loved; but the only way in this world that they can ever hope to be loved is to stop asking for it and to start pouring out love without hope of return.

Is listening a matter of waiting for the other person to stop so that you can start talking, or is it a skill that you genuinely want to develop? It's amazing how rare good listeners are, and by becoming one of those rare people, you can take a big step toward making yourself truly unforgettable.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.

Maggie Louise sat in a hardback chair, holding her baby brother, Squinchy, and her eyes fell upon Agee. There was something about the eyes of Maggie Louise that caught him the first time they met. They were 'temperature less, keen, serene, and wise and pure gray eyes,' Agee said, and they seemed to look everywhere and see into things. To look into the eyes of Maggie Louise was 'scary as hell, and even more mysterious than frightening,' said Agee. She knew she'd like him and he her.

Kingdom praying and its efficacy is entirely a matter of the innermost heart's being totally open and honest before God. It is a matter of what we are saying with our whole being, moving with resolute intent and clarity of mind into the flow of God's action.

The familiar words of Jesus are "Without me you can do nothing" (John 15:5). But these must be balanced by the insight that, in general, if we do nothing it will certainly be without him.

We have the ability and responsibility to keep God present in our minds, and those who do so will make steady progress toward him, for he will respond by making himself known to us.

People are meant to live in an ongoing conversation with God, speaking and being spoken to.

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

if we are not prepared to use our power of choice to turn our minds to God, then we do not have contact with God.

God seeks us. The basic nature of God is one of loving community.

You cannot drift into a life of constant companionship with Jesus