Quotes About Connection

Empathy Is An Endangered Instinct

Want a strong, solid relationship that is willing to go the distance? Get to know your running shoes.

I have found my church, and it is at the end of a long trail on a distant mountainship. It is there that I feel most at peace, entirely content and whole.

Maybe magic and love, together, can achieve what magic alone cannot.

I'm small, I'm young - and I'm so different. You've always respected that difference, and you've always trusted it. Trust me now. There's a reason I am the way I am, and there's a reason I was born to you. There's always a reason. We belong together.

Human beings are such knotted, desperate pieces of work-it's a rare thing to know one completely, to the core, and still love him.

You've taught me that we're all needed, even those who sometimes think we're worthless, plain and dull. If we love and allow ourselves to be loved...well, a person who loves is the most precious thing in the world, worth all the fortunes that ever were. That's what you've taught me, fur face,and because of you I'll never be the same.

No, if there's any ultimate redemption, it would be because I passed though your life without scarring you, and did not diminish who you are.

That was one of the most fundamental and sacred duties good friends and families performed for one another! They tended the flame of memory, so no one's death meant an immediate vanishment from the world; in some sense the deceased would live on after their passing, at least as long as those who loved them lived. Such memories were an essential weapon against the chaos of life and death, a way to ensure some continuity from generation to generation, an order of endorsement and meaning.

Y'all take care of yourself now... strange and interesting friends are hard to find.

Not an insult sweetie. That was a thirteen word kiss.

But the more people we love and the more deeply we love them, the more vulnerable we are to loss and grief and loneliness.

Dogs know we need to give affection as much as they need to receive it. They were the first therapists; they've been in practice for thousands of years.

I never knew whether I was drawn to eccentric people or if they were drawn to me.

The only thing that survives is love, for it is an energy as enduring as light, which travels outward from its source toward the ever-expanding boundaries

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a modem, you know.

We are not strangers to ourselves; we only try to be.

We hold each other hostage to our eccentricities." I smiled again, an unseen smile. "We're made for each other.

When we love someone, we're held hostage by fate, because if we lose that person, then we, too, are lost.

its a rare thing to know one completly to the core and stil love him

Riots come and go, wars come and go, but under the tumult, day after day, century after century, millions of people are doing nice things for one another, making sacrifices, mostly small things, but it's all those little kindnesses that hold civilization together, all those people who live quiet lives and never make the news.

Good fences make good neighbors, and these were apparently good enough that they had not felt the need for razor wire at the top. I crested the fence, threw myself into the yard beyond, fell, rolled to my feet, and ran with the expectation of being garroted by a taut clothesline. I heard panting, looked down, and saw a gold retriever running at my side, ears flapping. The dog glanced up at me tongue rolling, grinning, as though jazzed by the prospect of an unscheduled play session.

In a book, even the real bastards can't hurt you. And you can never loose a friend you make in a book. When you get to a sad part, no one's there to see you cry. Or wonder why you don't cry when you should.

Hell of a thing to have to experience, hell of a thing to have to see, to be reminded you're a human being and all it meant to be one.