Quotes About Connection

Stormy Llewellyn didn't want a pedestal. She wanted only someone who would look her straight in the eyes and always tell her the truth.

With friends, this is a cool world; without friends, it would be unbearably cold.

One of the greatest gifts we receive from dogs is the tenderness they evoke in us.

We are destined to be together forever. We have a card that says so. Gypsy Mummy is never wrong.

Someone said that everyone should stay back, so as not to stress me, but I said no. I said I wanted to see them all, to see people. I wanted to see not just the people I loved and the people I knew, but also the people I didn't know. I wanted to see people, because people had been my life, the good and bad, but always so many more good people than bad. They had been my life, and I did not want to die without the faces of people as the last thing I saw of that beautiful and mysterious world.

Life is hard and lonely for many people. If all of us would just make one another feel special now and then—not just with money, but however we can—wouldn't that be lovely?

A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than he loves himself. —Josh Billings

We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet; and amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us. —Maurice Maeterlinck

The dog chose more letters, waited for them to study the words, then looked solemnly at each of them to be sure they understood what he meant: I WOULD DIE OF LONELY.

No matter how close we are to another person, few human relationships are as free from strife, disagreement, and frustration as is the relationship you have with a good dog. Few human beings give of themselves to another as a dog gives of itself.

We are born with the dead: See, they return and bring us with them." —T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding

love was the closest thing to immortality that men would ever know and that the only--and best--answer to death is loving. Loving.

Each smallest act of kindness reverberates across great distances and spans of time, affecting lives unknown to the one whose generous spirit was the source of this good echo, because kindness is passed on and grows each time it's passed, until a simple courtesy becomes an act of selfless courage years later and far away. Likewise, each small meanness, each expression of hatred, each act of evil. —This Momentous Day, H.R. White

Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now.

Will I see you again?' I asked. 'Of course you will dear, you'll see everyone again;

she sees through yoy and knowsyour truest heart, but loves you anyway, [...]

In his mind he saw them standing with the tips of their organs pressed together ejaculating into each other's penis.

At fifty-one, why would she choose to dispose of her house, uproot herself, and come here to be a part of your work if she didn't feel that, for the first time in her life, she was profoundly known for who she is, that she was at last cherished for who she truly is?

And because it was so wonderful, I slipped back down into that dream of dogs and children and beautiful people who met my eyes and knew me in full, knew me and did not reject me.

To get through life successfully, body and soul must translate each other correctly more often than not.

I will hold her hand at the end, and I will pass soon after, for we are one heart, and neither of us would be of use without the other.

People should matter more than ideas.

People have lost their history, the what and how and why of things. They know so little of the places where they live.

Each life is a spool of thread that unravels through the years, and it is by a thread that we are so perilously suspended.