Quotes About Connection

Tweeting is like sending out cool telegrams to your friends once a week.

Being an only child, I didn't have any other family but my mom and dad really, since the rest of my family lived quite far away from London.

If you're lucky like me, your relationship with your brother has resolved itself on the peaceful side of the fence and has stayed there. But if you're someone who's got a family that's all fractured and finding it hard to relate, that's a very sad place to be.

We have a fundamental imperative in our lives to matter to others, to serve others, and to support each other in mattering more.

Here's a practical place to get started in this adventure of loving God with all your heart: Talk to God out loud and with emotion.

If you are going to have healthy relationships, you'll need to spend time alone with God. Paradoxically, those who have the healthiest relationships often are the most comfortable in being alone with God.

I feel connected to the Second World War because my father lost his father in that war. So, through my dad and the effect it had on him of losing his father young, I always felt connected to the war. It goes back years, but it still feels to me as if we're completely living in it.

We don't drink to forget. We drink to remember.

Ieder beest bidt op zijn manier.

Kids: get away from the cell phones, get away from the computers, and mail someone a fish before it's too late.

Everything becomes buffering, and buffering becomes everything.

It's very fluid, this space between philosophy and literature, and that's something that resonates for me.

For you, I was a chapter. For me, you were the book.

Distance means so little, when someone means so much.

I will always care for you, even if we're not together and even if we're far, far away.

I am sure one of those things we are here for is to make certain that those whom we love fall asleep each night assured of that love.

the kind of love that picks you up in Akron and sets you down in Rio...

No camera, no recording device, no laptop, none of this palm pilot nonsense or a cell phone. Paper and pencil, a book, maybe a bilingual dictionary. Anything beyond that (a) can be stolen, and (b) intimidates people you encounter. The more double-A batteries you carry, the more you distance yourself from the people you're writing about.

faces tell stories if you learn to read them!

Happy marriages begin when we marry the ones we love and they blossom when we love the ones we marry.

Maybe that's what we look for in the people we love, the spark of unhappiness we think we know how to extinguish.

Once you'd broken through that invisible barrier that separates one person from another, you were connected forever, whether you liked it or not.

It just took some people a little longer than others to realize how few words they needed to get by, how much of life they could negotiate in silence.

That's why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.