Quotes About Connection

It's wonderful to be loved but its profound to be understood.

It is a measure of true adulthood that we are able to imagine our parents as the people they may have been before us.

Vulnerability doesn't come after trust—it precedes it. Leaping into the unknown, when done alongside others, causes the solid ground of trust to materialize beneath our feet.

When we hear a fact, a few isolated areas of our brain light up, translating words and meanings. When we hear a story, however, our brain lights up like Las Vegas, tracing the chains of cause, effect, and meaning. Stories are not just stories; they are the best invention ever created for delivering mental models that drive behavior.

the number-one job is to take care of each other. I didn't always know that, but I know it now.

Belonging cues are behaviors that create safe connection in groups. They include, among others, proximity, eye contact, energy, mimicry, turn taking, attention, body language, vocal pitch, consistency of emphasis, and whether everyone talks to everyone else in the group.

told me his heart was so full he could say no more to me.

Indeed, laughter may be the shortest distance between two brains, an unstoppable infectious spread that builds an instant social bond.

The most powerful form of nondefensive listening, of course, is empathy: actually hearing the feelings behind what is being said.

It's the most important relationships in your life, the people you see day in and day out, that seem to be crucial for your health. And the more significant the relationship is in your life, the more it matters for your health."43

The goal of attunement is not simply continual meshing, with an utter entrainment of every thought and feeling; it also includes giving each other space to be alone as needed. This cycle of connectedness strikes a balance between the individual's needs and the couple's. As one family therapist put it, "The more a couple can be apart, the more they can be together.

Visionary leaders help people to see how their work fits into the big picture, lending people a clear sense not just that what they do matters, but also why.

no birthday, concert, hangout session, or party can be enjoyed without taking the time to distance yourself from what you are doing" to make sure that those in your digital world know instantly how much fun you are having.

Rapport demands joint attention—mutual focus. Our need to make an effort to have such human moments has never been greater, given the ocean of distractions we all navigate daily.

Empathy builds on self-awareness; the more open we are to our own emotions, the more skilled we will be in reading feelings.

shapes those feelings.

Una de las claves para intensificar nuestra conexión con el estado de flujo consiste en sintonizar lo que hacemos con lo que nos gusta, como sucede en el caso de quienes tienen la inmensa fortuna de disfrutar de su trabajo. Las personas con éxito son, independientemente del entorno considerado, las que han sabido dar con esa combinación.

Los niños de hoy en día crecen en una nueva realidad, una realidad en la que están muy desconectados de sus semejantes y mucho más conectados que nunca, por el contrario, con las máquinas, una situación que, por razones muy diversas, resulta inquietante.

Un estudiante universitario observa la soledad y el aislamiento que acompañan al hecho de vivir en un mundo virtual de tuits, actualizaciones de perfil y "subir fotos de la cena".

the root of altruism lies in empathy, the ability to read emotions in others; lacking a sense of another's need or despair, there is no caring.

De todas las dimensiones de la inteligencia emocional, la empatía es la que se reconoce con mayor facilidad.

porque constituye el vínculo entre los sentimientos, el carácter y los impulsos morales.

We catch feelings from one another as though they were some kind of social virus.

Attunement to others demands a modicum of calm in oneself.