Quotes About Connection

Dogs needed no words to console you. Dogs were the ultimate practitioners of the therapy of touch. Dogs knew and accepted the hard realities of life that human beings could not acknowledge until those obvious truths were exhaustively described with words, and even then there was often more bitter acknowledgment than humble acceptance.

This may be the primary purpose of dogs: to restore our sense of wonder and to help us maintain it, to make us consider that we should trust our intuition as they trust theirs and to help us realize that a thing known intuitively can be as real as anything known by material experience.

In time she said, I love you, Oddie. My voice was thick when I replied. I love you more than life." We'll be okay, she said. We are okay. We're weird and screwed-up, but we're okay, she agreed. If someone invented a thermometer that measured weirdness, it would melt under my tongue. But you-you're cool.

Framed behind glass is a card from a carnival fortune-telling machine. It promises you are destined to be together forever.

He lives vividly in her recollections, however, and his memory is etched on her soul.

Each reader needs to bring his or her own mind and heart to the text.

life is more than intelect

That's all that matters, really: that we can make each other feel better.

As I turned to leave the tent, she said, Don't worry. Your own mother wouldn't know you. I said, She never has.

The opportunity to love a dog and to treat it with kindness was an opportunity for a lost and selfish human heart to be redeemed. They are powerless and innocent, and it is how we treat the humblest among us that surely determines the fate of our souls. Cinnamon

Hope wasn't a cottage industry; it was neither a product that she could manufacture like needlepoint samplers nor a substance she could secrete, in her cautious solitude, like a maple tree producing the essence of syrup. Hope was to be found in other people, by reaching out, by taking risks, by opening her fortress heart.

That Love is all there is, Is all we know of Love…. —Emily Dickinson

You're spooky, he said, You knew what I was thinking. That not spooky, she said, That's married.

All knowledge, the totality of all questions and all answers, is contained in the dog. —Franz Kafka

Quantum theory tells us, Mr. Thomas, that every point in the universe is intimately connected to every other point, regardless of apparent distance. In some mysterious way, any point on a planet in a distant galaxy is as close to me as you are.

When the constellation of Cassiopeia is in this hemisphere and I am able to identify it, I feel less alone. This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic alone. Unreason is an essential medicine as long as you do not overdose.

When I noticed that some of the gray-haired ladies had tears in their eyes, I understood for the first time why music matters so much, how it reminds us of who we are and where we came from, of all the good times and the sadness, too.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. —C. G. Jung

Be you and only you, which means be you and all the people you have loved...

Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to complete and fulfill them, for it alone takes them and joins them by what is deepest in themselves. —Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

she loves the potentiality and the reality of each friend.

After six years of solitude, sharing a meal and conversation with someone was a pleasure. More than a pleasure, her hospitality and companionship were also affecting to a surprising extent, so that at times I was overcome by emotion so intense, I couldn't have spoken without revealing how profoundly I was moved.

For a better part of a decade, he had been outside society, distanced in mind and spirit if not in body. But now, for the first time since Centeral America, Jack Twist had the need, the desire, and ability to reach out to society around him, to make friends.

He would pray...for everyone who knew pain, which meant everyone who wore a human face.