Quotes About Connection

The band feels loose in all the right ways, and it's just so cool looking out and seeing all of these people that I haven't seen in a while.

Love isn't a decision. It's a feeling. If we could decide who we loved, it would be much simplier, but much less magical.

Saying goodbye doesn't mean anything. It's the time we spent together that matters, not how we left it.

She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.

Her whole life she always pictured falling in love being full of nervous emotion, peaks of romance, and the excitement of wondering if he loved her as much as she loved him. But maybe love was simpler. Maybe true love was finding someone you could talk to with ease, whose heart cared for the same things, and whose dreams could meld with your own.

That's why God gave us families - an community. No one is meant to live life alone, to carry their grief alone.

to share what she learned with her friends and family in Indiana.

I can actually feel the house getting dirty. Like I have nerve endings in the carpet. - Allyson

She'd spent the rest of the day at his side, getting

There are people from your community who love Him in a quiet, reverent way. There are others who are more bold and vocal about their faith. But I have a notion what makes Him feel special isn't just the fact that all those people think He's great. But rather when you or I are praying, and thinking about Him or singing to Him or thanking Him for his mountains and trees, that He takes joy in the intimacy of the moment. It's that personal connection, I bet, that brightens His day.

Too often we parents make assumptions about our children's actions and motives. We lecture instead of listening. We always have an answer, instead of stopping to listen.2

Being a twin is like being born with a best friend.

you and I are close, we intertwine; you may stand on the other side of the hill once in awhile, but you may also be me while remaining what you are and what I am not.

What if we valued feeling as much as thinking, as synchronistic events invite us to do?" —Robert H. Hopcke, There are No Accidents

By its nature, nonlocal mind connects all things because it is all things.

It's cool when your husband starts to sing some old Merle Haggard song and I can pop in with a harmony and it doesn't sound too bad.

I'm terribly sorry, Fergal!' 'What for? I'm beginning to feel as if it's mine, too!

Life is short, do not deprive yourself of the people or things that help you create real moments of happiness.

Always be kind, you never know what someone is going through. Whether it's words of encouragement or simple gestures to show appreciation. Remember, all supports goes a long way. Some things may not mean much to you but the world to someone else.

Hate not, for appreciation is the tunnel to love and love is the key to life.

More important though—live for others, just as much as for yourself. If you do that, their strength becomes, in some mysterious way, yours. There is always somebody, somewhere, who needs you. Never, for one minute, ever lose sight of that. If they are not with you, not near you now—go and find them, even if it means voyaging thousands of miles to do it.

This is the myth of finding "the One": the one partner you're "meant" to be with, your soul mate, your Prince Charming, the girl of your dreams. Nonmonogamous folks reject this myth and acknowledge that no one person can be, or should be expected to be, everything for another.

People in open relationships enjoy exploring different dynamics with different people-sexual, emotional, psychological, and spiritual. Non-monogamy gives them the opportunity to create unique relationships that nourish and support each other.

La muerte era eso: no ver más a alguien. O no haber visto nunca a alguien.