Quotes About Connection

And she told Monste all about it as she poured coffee into vases for them both. (It was true! It was true!)

The book itself was useless, too. All the advice it offered about the timing of meals and affecting a cheerful disposition and trying to take an interest in the husband's doings even when they're fearfully boring and never saying 'I told you so'--those aren't the reasons a person looks with favour upon another person, these aren't the reasons someone stays in love.

Listen, there's this little girl who makes herself laugh. You hear her from the other room, and when you try to get her to explain, she just says: 'Don't worry about it.' And maybe it's the thief in me, but I think this girl is mine, and that when she and I are around each other, we're giving each other something we've never had, or taking back something we've lost.

times the girl offered her hand, her mother refused it. It was the usual struggle between one who loves by accepting burdens and one who loves by refusing to be one.

I hate that my life is teaching me that I can only be loved if I put my love out of reach and just drift about people until they love my remoteness. I'm not just talking about romances but about friendships too. Whoa, Mia, you're too intense. I get a lot of that. So I know that I won't be loved the way I need to be.

Mary. If you were real I'd run away with you forever.

The girl tried, several times, to give her love away, but her love would not stay with the person she gave it to and snuck back to her heart without a sound.

He held me so tightly that numbness stretched all the way down my arms and only let go a few minutes after he did. It wasn't as nice a feeling as the flag around my shoulders. But I felt more certain of it because it lasted longer.

What's good about belonging to a religious tradition is that it embeds us in a community, which sustains us in spiritual practice.

I cannot bear to think what will become of me without you – you who are my one and all, who make up all my life',

Having benefited from happy days, should I not share with them the bad days?

We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)

I believe wholeheartedly in marriage. I don't exclusively mean a marriage with a legal contract, but any relationship that constitutes a marriage because of the quality of their relationship.

Home is any four walls that enclose the right person.

A husband is what is left of a lover, after the nerve has been extracted.

A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

After a few years of marriage, a man can look right at a woman without seeing her — and a woman can see right through a man without looking at him.

Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

we were both home by 7pm in time for The Archers, it was a cause for celebration. More often than not, we only saw each other at weekends or encountered the other as a warm body in bed in the small hours, having worked late or been out with friends. But

For me, it's the simple life – spending more time in nature and with family. If you work too hard, you get stressed, then you get sick, and then you can't work at all.

and a sense of being part of something bigger than yourself, like religion, or just being Danish for folk round these parts.

Continuing to learn throughout life helps improve mental well-being, boosts self-confidence, gives you a sense of purpose and makes you feel more connected to others, according to the Office for National Statistics.

The theory is that being a part of a club helps you to be an active person, involved in community life and with a sense of responsibility for the collective. This is important for developing a society of trust. There's lots of research to show that being part of a club helps develop trust as it encourages us to live a connected, associational life – which is good for us and makes us happy.

Teach only love for that is what you are.