Quotes About Connection

I like to think that our story isn't over just yet, that someday we'll meet again and finally get it right.

Why do people stay together? Putting aside 'for the sake of the children', and 'the habit of years' and 'economic reasons' as lawyers' nonsense – it's not much more – if one really does try to find out why it is that people don't leave each other, one discovers a mystery.

I like a work of art for what it means to me.

I was with my father at the end. He held my hand and I could see that he was at peace. Colin

They say that one chooses one's friends, but one's relations are thrust upon one.

Religion is man's attempt to bind himself back to a relationship with God.

like to do it because I believe hospitality is about love, not logic.

The most important thing was something that I saw when I saw them for dinner that evening and what I still see today - it's the way they look at each other, the way they act around each other. They make each other happy. They love each other. They are good to each other. As long as you make each other happy, as long as you are good to one another, he is everything I could ever want.

Someone once told me that something they really liked about me was that they thought that I was really down to earth and not high-maintenance. I think that was cool. It's important to stay grounded.

You know when you have a good relationship with someone when you are just perfectly happy to be quiet and just hang out and do nothing.

When I go to a concert, I can't help but feel happy and everything else just goes away. I hope everyone feels that way at my concerts.

Answer these questions as fast as you can, ready?'...'Close your eyes; it works better that way'...'What's you DOB?'...'What's your phone number ?'...'How old is your mom?'...'How many cousins do you have?'...'What's eight plus fifteen?'...'What's the first number of your locker combo?

Last Week Dara had asked Claire to bring him a houseplant. She'd come back with a tiny little pothos vine in a ceramic pot. Dara had positioned it near the window, and he was embarrassed to admit he'd taken to talking with the plant, one-sided conversations to fill the empty hours.

Then he pushed the covers down and settled on his side, curled in close against Noam—close enough to lend Noam his heat. Dara tipped their brows together and let their noses brush, Dara's hand a knot against Noam's chest. "Be okay," he pleaded, demanded. He wished more than anything that he could force Noam to obey.

We must never forget that we are all connected, that our actions have consequences, and that we have a responsibility to one another, to our community, and to the land. We must strive to live in harmony with the natural world, and to protect and preserve it for future generations (Kneubuhl 89)

We must never forget that we are all connected, that our actions have consequences, and that we have a responsibility to one another, to our community, and to the land. We must strive to live in harmony with the natural world, and to protect and preserve it for future generations (p 65)

The people of this land have always had a deep connection to the 'aina. They knew that the land was not something to be owned or exploited, but rather a living, breathing entity to be respected and cared for." (Kneubuhl 21)

You show your vulnerability through relationships, and those feelings are your soft spot. You need to have a soft spot.

Sometimes I think we need to tell our stories more than anyone needs to hear our stories. Maybe just so that anticipation or happiness can be reached for again. But other times it is almost as if the story itself wants repeating. So that the strand of hair caught in a kiss or the turn of a beautiful face isn't lost forever. So that, especially when it comes to beauty, we're not alone and left with the burden of remembering.

And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

The daughter can become the mother's opportunity either to make up for the past and right wrongs or to exact retribution for her losses. The mother's own experience of the long-ago family serves as an overlay to her mothering: Past and present are inextricably intertwined.

A daughter is a mother's gender partner, her closest ally in the family confederacy, an extension of her self. And mothers are their daughters' role model, their biological and emotional road map, the arbiter of all their relationships.

It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men.

But many more daughters of distant fathers are unable to reach orgasm, or achieve it with consistency with any man. Indeed these daughters have the most trouble in bed: for them, affection and arousal are synonymous with rejection.