Quotes About Connection

Now the uncle spoke up. 'This cannot be,' he said. 'The human being is designed for many things. Loneliness is not one of them.' ... Mrs. Ramani leaned into me, and said, as a statement of fact. 'We are not meant to go through this life alone.

history is something not to be underestimated, and even if the present was gone, a shared history must be respected

Our time is so precious. You're holding out for someone who you really want to spend all your time with. Otherwise, there's no point to it.

The human being is designed for many things. Loneliness is not one of them. We are not meant to go through this life alone.

I am deeply saddened by the death of my dear friend, Dudley Moore.

Most people hate cell phone use on trains; I love cell phone use on trains. What do you want to do, read that report on your lap, or hear about your neighbor's worst date ever?

Don't take the people you love for granted. Don't ever be scared to love someone with your whole heart. Be transparent.

I stand back from him. I don't understand. You've seen parts of me that are not perfect, and you still love me?

This is what it feels like to love someone. The fear that they could be harmed and you'd be helpless keeps you up at night. It's a rift in your logic. It turns you from sensible into someone who's inside out.

Yes, romance novels are extreme. The situations are turned up to eleven and everyone is beautiful without dieting or exercise and the sex is always amazing, but when I strip all that away what I get is that all of this"—Sasha motions to everything around us, and I'm assuming she means the world and our existence and not this particular Mexican restaurant—"that all of this is nothing without love.

love is not reasonable or measured. It undoes you. It's in the imperfections in each other, in ourselves, where we find our humanity. It's in our dents and scars where the deepest connections are made. Real love resides in the parts of me I think no one wants to see.

In becoming someone's anyone, I became no one's only one.

I want to ask him if he thinks I can get used to being seen like this, being loved like this. I want to ask him why I can be myself around him. Why I still belong to myself around him.

The complicated algorithms of the pre-relationship: 1 mix tape + 2(accidental run-ins in the hallways – serious ex-girlfriends/possible fiancée(?)) + 1 set of in-laws + X(number of sexual partners – one night stands) will = eternal bliss. But the truth is that when it's right—when it's really right—that algorithm fades away and the equation simply becomes 1 + 1 = 2.

Love isn't about sparks. It's about not wanting to be without someone...and feeling complete when you're with them.

Everybody hangs out with everybody, which is very strange for a cast this large and this young. We're all cool and down to earth and not caught up in this maniacal business at all... . Everybody really, really likes everybody else.

Well, the name is Salvatore. As in Savior - Damon Salvatore

They weren't a centuries old hunter and a seventeen year old girl, sitting here at the edge of the world. They were just two people, Bonnie and Damon.

In Mary-Lynette's mind he did look like a knight off on a quest for his fair lady – no weapons or armour. But then Ash started walking backwards, waving at the same time and it ruined the effect. "Even when we're apart we'll be looking at the same sky!" he cried. "What a line!" Mary-Lynette yelled back.

As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.

I think fitness is important. I think a healthy lifestyle is important. I think putting positive energy out there is important and just staying connected with the people.

love has no end, because the Beloved has no end.

The Sufi relates to God not as a judge, nor as a father figure, nor as the creator, but as our own Beloved, who is so close, so near, so tender. In the states of nearness the lover experiences an intimacy with the Beloved which carries the softness and ecstasy of love.

We have separated matter and spirit and through the power of this collective attitude have starved the world.