Quotes About Connection

When you drink the water, remember the spring.

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.

A bit of fragrance clings to the hand that gives flowers.

A thousand cups of wine do not suffice when true friends meet, but half a sentence is too much when there is no meeting of minds.

Make happy those who are near, and those who are far will come.

Married couples tell each other a thousand things without speech.

To attract good fortune, spend a new coin on an old friend, share an old pleasure with a new friend, and lift up the heart of a true friend by writing his name on the wings of a dragon.

Chinese Proverb

Even now I often ask myself: perhaps love produces a feeling of inspiration similar to that experienced by an artist or a poet?

?ôi khi ch? c?n nhìn vào l?ng m?t ng??i ta ?ã có th? ?oán bi?t ngay ???c tâm tr?ng h? ra sao, có nh?ng c?m xúc gì ?ang di?n ra trong lòng h?

If one finger brings oil it soils the others.

I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more difficult is to identify with someone you don't see, who's very far away, who's a different color, who eats a different kind of food. When you begin to do that then literature is really performing its wonders.

A man who calls his kinsmen to a feast does not do so to save them from starving. They all have food in their own homes. When we gather together in the moonlit village ground it is not because of the moon. Every man can see it in his own compound. We come together because it is good for kinsmen to do so.

Economic gloom lightens your wallet while weighing down your spirit. Five of the ten most stressful life events are related to whether you are employed and whether the quality of your work experience is good. Your work does more than affect your self-esteem; it organizes your day, connects you with others, and can give you a sense of purpose. Not

Statistics are rarely meaningful in and of themselves. Statistics will, and should, almost always be used to illustrate a relationship. It's more important for people to remember the relationship than the number.

If you want to be part of a group that bonds like cement, take on a really demanding task that's deeply meaningful. All of you will remember it for the rest of your lives.

How do you build peaks? You create a positive moment with elements of elevation, insight, pride, and/or connection.

spell out the benefit of the benefit. In other words, people don't buy quarter-inch drill bits. They buy quarter-inch holes so they can hang their children's pictures.

Some powerful defining moments contain all four elements. Think of YES Prep's Senior Signing Day: the ELEVATION of students having their moment onstage, the INSIGHT of a sixth grader thinking That could be me, the PRIDE of being accepted to college, and the CONNECTION of sharing the day with an arena full of thousands of supportive people. (See the footnote for a mnemonic to remember this framework for defining moments.)

Relationships don't deepen naturally. In the absence of action, they will stall.

Creating more memorable and meaningful experiences is a worthy goal—

What they realized was that they didn't need their colleagues to understand something, they needed them to feel something.

Finding bright spots, then, solves many different problems at once. That's no surprise; successful change efforts involve connecting all three parts of the framework: Rider, Elephant, and Path.

When responsiveness is coupled with openness, though, intimacy can develop quickly.